Sappho

Female | Age unspecified | over 10 minutes
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EXTRACT: The rainy Pleiads wester And seek beyond the sea The head that I shall dream on That ’twill not dream of me. I hope that was not rain. Not good for me to get too soggy… papier mâché. ‘If we read Sappho without prejudice, we observe that she is deeply moved by the physical graces of young women.’ Denys Page, another of my ventriloquist lovers, Cambridge Don, scholar, Fellow, author of learned commentaries on Ionian lyric poets—not one to suffer fools gladly, but always such a gentleman to me… rubbing ankles in the Copper Kettle over eccles cakes.

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