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I wrote a book!

Opinions is a sequence of Spenserian sonnets on the ancient Greek philosophers, as described in Diogenes Laërtius’ Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers.

(Be amazed as their literary alter egos haunt the modern intellectual vernacular!)

Written with an AxiDraw pen plotter, Pilot Kakuno fountain pen, Noodler’s Ink, and Tomoe River 52 gsm paper (and a Sharpie).

https://pseudepigram.bigcartel.com/product/opinions

$10, cheap!

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#sonnet #poetry

The cover of Opinions: pale green paper with the title in block letters and a large glyph overlaying the letters of the title into a single symbol.

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An inner page of Opinions. The following poem is written in pen:

Thales

A relic from the waters of Miletus
A riddle cast on whom it should devolve
Which only by the oracle of Phoebus
Could be authoritatively resolved:

“All ownership rests fitly with the gods,
Friends make no petty tallyings of price,
And virtue the divine affection draws:
All treasure is the province of the wise.”

The victor was administered his prize,
But passed it on again in deference,
Only to see its ambit circumscribe
A perfect orbit of presentiment.

No matter how diffusively they’re strown,
The perquisites of wisdom know their own.

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Opinions pinned to a hexagonal wall panel.

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