Tagged: allusion

Playing with Twine. Featured Image @adynamicreader - Playing with Twine

Playing with Twine – an experiment on Cyzicus

Twine’s a user-friendly story-building tool that I’ve (mis-)used to make a short interactive reading experiment. The sample text (unsurprisingly) is taken from the Argonautica: A.R. 1.922-984, the Argonauts’ arrival at Cyzicus. Brave the island alone or call upon allies for advice – the choice, reader, is yours!

“The Rape of Persephone” by Rupert Bunny, 1913. Featured Image @adynamicreader - What’s in a ‘locus’? Some notes on Fasti 4.417-8

What’s in a ‘locus’? Some notes on Fasti 4.417-8

‘The locus demands I proclaim the virgin’s rape. You’ll recognise many things, and a few you ought to learn.’ Is ‘locus’ a location in space and is that space in the real world, on a page, or in the mind? Is ‘locus’ a point in time? Is it some when and where we have been before? How many things can fit in a ‘locus’?