Tossing in my sleep thinking of Poem of Force: doesn’t force have a defensive as well aggressive capacity? Yes, force and the threat of force can be used to render us into inert objects, but can’t it also be used to prevent that from happening?
Also that “little push” of Achilles and her account of it is quite fascinating: ἁψάμενος δ᾽ ἄρα χειρὸς ἀπώσατο ἦκα γέροντα. Reading this in bed last night I was thinking: if I actually knew how to read, these would be the sorts of insights I took from my reading.
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