NPPF Canto One - scarfskin

[Glenn Scheper]

I am not fascinated with nail trimmings.
They just keep pushing themselves on me,
as this URL seeking other things belies:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_text_homer_homerica.htm?ia
m=savvy&terms=+Hesperus+wreck+meaning
Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica, translated by Evelyn-White

> Hesiod's diction is in the main Homeric,
> but one of his charms is the use of quaint allusive phrases
> derived, perhaps, from a pre- Hesiodic peasant poetry:
...
> to cut one's nails is `to sever the withered from
> the quick upon that which has five branches';

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
http://home.earthlink.net/~glenn_scheper/
glenn_scheper + at + earthlink.net
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