Was it Hesper or Phosphor?

[Madeleine Maudlin]

Ah yes, no I knew you were ginspeaking, beating swords into ginshares and
spears into ginning hooks, but which Shem is he worshiping, which fires in
the night or the day, does it depend on the oc with the squiggly..?

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Lemuel Underwing <luunderwing at gmail.com>wrote:

> O dear me, must've been the Gin talking hoho...
>
> Hesper, the evening star, and Phosphorus the morning star.
>
> Phosphorus is connect'd to Lucifer via a passage in the Greek ver. of
> Isaiah,
> he is worshiping Lucifer as Hesperus, the father...?
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Madeleine Maudlin <
> madeleinemaudlin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What are you talking about?
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 8:38 PM, Lemuel Underwing <luunderwing at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> silly me I forgot my ος, so 'tis Phosphorus
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Lemuel Underwing <luunderwing at gmail.com
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> A wonderful passage from M&D upon the general Poetic Confusion on the
>>>> subject,
>>>>  p96:
>>>> *"Somebody somewhere in the World, watching the Planet go dark agains
>>>> the Sun, - dark, mad, mortal, the Goddess in quite another Aspect indeed, -
>>>> cannot help blurting, exactly at The Moment, from Sappho's fragment 95,
>>>> seeming to wreck thereby the Ob, -
>>>> "O Hesperus, - you bring back all that bright day scatter'd, - you
>>>> bring in the sheep, and the goat, - you bring the Child back to her mother."
>>>> "Thank you for sharing that with us... recalling that this is Sun-Rise,
>>>> Dear, -Rise, not sun-**Set."
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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