Now
Yi Jian Mei
Li Qingzhao writes Song lyric while Zhao Mingcheng is away, and later after he is dead. The feeling leaves the brow and climbs the heart. The two weathers are not the same poem.
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Read this story →Letters
Ille mi par esse deo videtur
The correspondence itself →
Stories
The lives around the letters.
A growing archive. 37 encounters.
Atlas
Comum (Como)→Campania
Love across place, distance, and time.
The Word
eros
“Desire” can be calm, consumer, or vague. Ἔρως is pointed, often involuntary, and frequently described as an assault on speech and standing. “Love” is worse: it smuggles in companionship, duration, and mutuality that the Greek word does not require.