The string he tied / Has been unravelled by years

September 7, 2018 1:43 PM

Having it wind up in permanent form, sort of like a Chinese Wall in cyberspace… anybody who wants to can go and read it, if they take the trouble. Free copies to everyone. So that it became, really, at the last minute, the opposite of the really weird, elitist thing many people thought it was.

Digital Antiquarian (Jimmy Maher) goes deep on Agrippa (A Book of the Dead)

Agrippa previously [1] [2]

posted by juv3nal (3 comments total)

For convenience (even though the link is in the main article and probably the previouslies), the text of the poem is here.
posted by juv3nal at 1:48 PM on September 7, 2018

I've come full circle on Agrippa over the last 20 years or so. Initially I was fascinated by the concept and presentation, and I enjoyed the poem itself, and then I started to feel like the whole thing was ridiculous and overwrought and stunt-y (both poem and presentation), and I forgot about it for a few years. And then I revisited the poem itself and I fell in love with it again. It really is a good poem, I think.
posted by Two unicycles and some duct tape at 2:40 PM on September 7, 2018 [2 favorites]

That was much more interesting than I had anticipated, thank you.
posted by Chrysostom at 4:45 PM on September 7, 2018