on medieval literary theory (herte hounds)

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"or, if you wish, suppose that Diana is avarice or the desire to plunder, who incessantly shoots her arrows at that deer, that is, the timorous poor, and therefore arrogant, horned princes and stiff-necked, proud tyrants are wont to dance around her.

it is scarcely possible to cite any class of person which does not serve the huntswoman Avarice."

 in the habit of artemis,

and of athena, and of the deities of huntresses -

at once wrathful and austere -

here is the year of that which is

at once beautiful and fearsome

a process, an irony, something more barbarous

a herte, a hound, a hunt

(this new year,
i am at
the break
of giving chase)

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