Tuesday, April 10, 2007

odi et amo

This is a famous, and over-analyzed poem of Catullus to be sure, but I feel the need to share its brilliantly chiastic structure with you today in honor of Random Catullus Appreciation Day:

odi et amo. quare id faciam, fortasse requiris.
nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.


Or, in an even more befitting Ancient Roman script:

ODIETAMOQVAREIDFACIAMFORTASSEREQVUIRIS
NESCIOSEDFIERISENTIOETEXCRVCIOR

(Sidebar: I'm glad for the sake of print-loving generations to come that someone eventually thought of punctuation, lower-case letters. and spaces between words and all.)


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