The City (poem)
The City (Greek: Ἡ Πόλις) is an 1894 poem by Constantine Cavafy.
Cultural Impact
An English translation of the poem appears in the appendix of the Lawrence Durrell novel Justine; Cavafy is a character in the work. The narrator of Justine refers to his translation of this poem as "by no means literal".[1]
gollark: You can't arbitrarily change the number, but you can send stupid amounts of increment or decrement requests.
gollark: It's not very secure, honestly.
gollark: incdec game idea: write a program to constantly emulate clicking +.
gollark: There are at least three bots for it around.
gollark: The IncDec game is basically a globally shared number with increment/decrement buttons.
References
- Durrell, Lawrence (1957). Justine. Faber and Faber. p. 221.
External links
- Poem in Greek and English translation thereof (by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard) at the Official Site of the Cavafy Archive
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