Name Someone Research Articles

Suicide and the Coloniality of the Senses, Time, and Being: The Aesthetics of Death Desires

We engage the decolonial option from Abya Yala, el Caribe, and Eastern Europe with an interest in suicide from our struggles as racialized people and our dehumanization, whereby, for many of us, suicide is not an act of autonomy or resistance but the reaffirmation of death as an ongoing state of living. This is the permanent reality of existence concocted by coloniality and its constitutive effect on lived experience. We depart from the assumption that suicide materializes according to someone’s thinking about the world and of a particular philosophy. Thus, predominantly, suicide is the universal name someone’s knowledge has given to an experience; and whose experience is named as such is consequently universally configured as a suicidal being. Here, we discuss suicide from understandings that come from non-discursive domains, and from a different genealogy than western Europe’s; the coloniality of the senses, time and being. We attempt to story what violence does in relation to an already violent circumstance, suicide, therapists and hotline workers, and undocumented lives in the U.S., when singularly imposing one way of the world. We are interested in adding visibility to the legacy of erasure and violence that the epistemologies and ontologies of suicide, suicide assessments, and therapists’ clinical judgements perpetuate; further sustaining dehumanization and the imposition of death as a constant in life. We discuss a crisis suicide call as the lay of the land of modernity’s suicide assessments, constructed as an assemblage from our shared memories on many stories we have heard in our work. We annotate it as it unfolds, reflecting upon our expected practices in institutionalized settings, under the control of modernity/coloniality that discriminates against pluriversal temporalities, sensings, and relationalities.

Rural Water Point Functionality Estimates and Associations: Evidence From Nine Countries in Sub‐Saharan Africa and South Asia

AbstractSustained functionality of rural water systems is a global challenge. Research on factors contributing to rural water system functionality is largely restricted to hand pumps from single geographies. We analyzed monitoring data from 10 drinking water supply programs in nine sub‐Saharan African and South Asian countries collected between 2017 and 2020. Data included 1,805 randomly selected water points (tap stands, spring protections, rainwater collection, and boreholes and hand‐dug wells with hand pumps) from two cross‐sectional samples: older construction (1–12 years old) and new construction (<1 year). Data collection included observations of water point functionality (“water available”) and management committee questionnaires. Overall, 79% of older construction and 92% of new construction water points were functional. In a mixed effects logistic regression to identify factors contributing to functionality within the older construction sample, piped water tap stands had lower odds of functioning than boreholes with hand pumps (OR = 0.26, 95% CI:0.15–0.46). Water points in communities with fewer available water points, those with operational water management committees (which meet often, collect fees, and can name someone for maintenance), and those with financial savings were associated with higher functionality. As piped water system provision increases in line with international development goals, our results suggest that the benefits of providing higher levels of water service should be carefully considered alongside the technological, institutional, and financial investment required to operate and maintain more complex piped water systems in rural settings.

Principles of Performance and Financial Management between Islamic Banks and Conventional Banks

The name of someone, something, and institution had a certain meaning. A meaning depends so much on someone’s perception to an object. Perception of society to Sharia Bank had an impact to society behavior toward Sharia Bank. There was a gap here between bank and society which had to be acted as a bridge through policy and socialization program. Socialization policy which was planned, adaptive, and interesting could minimize the misperception risk. Socially, the socialization program was the enculturization of sharia bank values ​​process, and it was understood as the form of civil education.

EVALUATION OF COORDINATION IN IMPROVING QUALITY OF SERVICE DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Coordination is an obligation that connects leaders and subordinates. Therefore, the attitude of employees is strongly influenced by the nature of their leadership. If a leader does not provide direction and lacks communication, the organization will not work according to the plan. When viewed from its function, coordination is closely related to communication. This study uses descriptive qualitative research methods. This research uses data collection techniques such as interviews, observations, and documentation to collect data. The study results illustrate how to coordinate during the covid-19 pandemic period, hold official meetings between one unit and another, name someone as an exceptional coordinator, have designed work guidelines, leaders always organize meetings with their members and prepare coordination facilities and infrastructure. Coordination obstacles he faced include: first, personal barriers, namely the implementation of online meetings, making participants less conducive and less communicative to express their opinions. Second, physical barriers are participants in online meetings or meetings sometimes encounter obstacles on the Internet. The sound is cut and will not be understood clearly, and the video quality is poor

Effects of Social Robotics on Episodic Memory in Children With Intellectual Disabilities

Episodic memory is crucial to develop complex cognitive abilities like learning or reasoning, and non-complex cognitive abilities like calling the name of someone or remembering an appointment. It is known that an intellectual disability implies a deficit over tasks related to episodic memory, however, in the literature, there is no approach to stimulate episodic memory in children with intellectual disabilities. Because interactions with social robots have generated positive effects in children with intellectual disabilities, we propose an approach composed of three training sessions based on social robotics. In this paper, we present an exploratory study to know the effects of our approach on episodic memory in children with intellectual disabilities. The results have shown that our approach can enhance episodic memory in these children when they interact with interest and improve their performance in sessions.

BANK SYARIAH DAN BANK KONFESIONAL DENGAN NILAI DAN KANDUNGAN TERHADAP PERBEDAAN PENERAPAN DAN PENEGELOLAAN KINERJA KEUANGAN SECARA SYARIAH DAN KONFESIONAL

The name of someone, something, institution had a certain meaning. A meaning depended so much on someone’s perception to an object. Perception of society to Sharia Bank had an impact to society behavior towa rd Sharia Bank. There was a gap here between bank and society which had to be acted as a bridge through policy and socialization program. Socialization policy which was planned, adaptive, and interesting could minimize the misperception risk. Socially, sosialization program was the enculturization of sharia bank values process, and it was understood as the form of civil education.

Turkish Patronymic Surnames Ending with -oğlu ‘Son of

This study examines Turkish patronymic surnames ending with the suffix -oğlu ‘son of.’ For this examination, this investigation compiled three corpora of Turkish surnames (N = 10,369) representative of the Turkish population. The aim of this corpus analysis was the identification of the conceptual and grammatical functional elements of these surnames as markers of linguistic and cultural diversity within Turkey. The findings reveal that the Turkish patronymic surnames did not merely denote the name of someone’s father. They also reflect manifold cognitive diversity and express meta-language awareness of Turkey’s intercultural richness. Consequently, this article contends that integrating insights gained from surname research into the foreign language classroom may assist learners of Turkish in overcoming language and cultural barriers. As this study concludes, the findings presented here and in analogous research can help language learners gain a better understanding of the meanings and cultural symbolism embedded in names.

Arts of Dying: Literature and Finitude in Medieval England by D. Vance Smith

Reviewed by: Arts of Dying: Literature and Finitude in Medieval England by D. Vance Smith Julie Orlemanski D. Vance Smith. Arts of Dying: Literature and Finitude in Medieval England. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. x, 299. $30.00 paper. Dying is bound up with the nature of literary art. This is the guiding insight of D. Vance Smith’s luminous new study Arts of Dying: Literature and Finitude in Medieval England. As Smith explores, the representation of death is consistently unsettled, circular, interminable—because “when it seems to appear, its absence of being calls into question the means by which it is supposedly represented” (14). Interminability is at the heart of how Arts of Dying defines literature as well, as a discourse that “is never definitive, never arrives at a unified meaning that can be transposed to some other, more useful, register” (5). Both the language of dying and the language of literature, then, “point toward a messianic moment at which they do not arrive” (5). Incapable of reaching the terminus that lies beyond language’s aesthetic and referential resources, they are nonetheless directed toward the limit—and so help us “discover something about our experience of finitude” (4). The reciprocity between interminability and finitude emerges across twelve chapters’ worth of finely wrought readings, of texts that span the late tenth to the fifteenth century. The readings gain depth [End Page 346] from Smith’s marshaling of medieval philosophy and theology, as well as the work of modern thinkers such as Martin Heidegger and Maurice Blanchot. By means of “imagination, style, and form,” Smith argues, “this literature justifies itself as a language that can say the unsayable” (14). Arts of Dying is a beautiful book, almost vibrating with the intensity of its thinking. The introduction and first chapter together orient readers within the project as a whole. There, Smith distinguishes what his topic is not: it is not the afterlife nor theological accounts of death, “which provide answers for a finitude we have not yet fully experienced” (4). Instead, the book pursues “accounts of dying, not death, because strictly speaking what we talk about when we talk about death is really dying,” or the suspended state of mortal life approaching death (4–5). Certainties about the terminus of this suspended state are hard to come by. To explain why, Smith recapitulates two long-standing problems in medieval logic. One is how properly to name someone who has died and thus, strictly speaking, ceased to exist: “The question of how to refer to someone who was dead became, in the later Middle Ages, one of the central problems in theories of reference” (21). The other problem is how to describe the duration of dying, or “what, or when, dying is” (23). Both of these problems extend far back into the history of philosophy but reemerged in early fourteenth-century Oxford, where terminist logic and quantitative kinematics provided new ways of thinking about change, limit, and language. The “slippage between termination and term,” or “the trace of death in language,” turns out to be a concern that philosophy shares with medieval vernacular texts (24, 26). At a couple of points in Arts of Dying, Smith argues for the direct influence of academic logic on Middle English poetry (as in the reading of Pearl in Chapter 8). For the most part, though, the representational aporias of dying index the common existential and discursive situation that philosophy and poetry share, one likewise addressed, as Smith shows, by Heidegger, Blanchot, G. W. F. Hegel, Edward Said, and Gillian Rose, among others. The driving claims of Arts of Dying are more theoretical and literary-critical than historical. This helps explain why Smith has relatively little to say in his introduction about how Arts of Dying fits alongside previous monographs in Middle English studies. For instance, readers may be surprised not to see more engagement with Amy Appleford’s important Learning to Die in London, 1380–1540 (2015), which tracks how the genre [End Page 347] of ars moriendi played a crucial role in the civic culture of late medieval London. But Arts of Dying is a work of criticism more than it...

Reading Wittgenstein with Anscombe, Going onto Ethics by Cora Diamond

Reviewed by: Reading Wittgenstein with Anscombe, Going onto Ethics by Cora Diamond Peg O'Connor Cora Diamond. Reading Wittgenstein with Anscombe, Going onto Ethics. London and Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2019. Cloth, $39.95. In many ways, this is a difficult and important book about a difficult and important book (Anscombe's An Introduction to Wittgenstein's Tractatus) about a difficult and important book (Wittgenstein's Tractatus). It is also much more, as Diamond highlights Anscombe's work on ethics and action as she moves to engage metaethical questions about relativism and truth. One of the unifying threads is the matter of thinking about thinking, especially the ways we respond to thinking that has gone astray (5). Thinking that does go astray traverses paths with "dangerous spots," as Wittgenstein says. The dangerous spots may be muddles and confusions. To avoid these paths, we need sign posts. Diamond's work provides a collection of sign posts constructed from her careful, critical, and charitable reading of Anscombe and Wittgenstein. It is a keen study and practice of a philosophical method that not only aims to clarify muddle and confusion but avoid them in the first place. This book will benefit not only philosophers of language, Wittgenstein, and Anscombe scholars, but also those working in metaethics. The book comprises seven essays divided into three sections. While six of these have been published previously, each has been revised and reconsidered. Each section has [End Page 412] a substantial introduction that situates the essays of that section both in terms of their relation to each other and to the trajectory of the book as a whole. In these introductions, Diamond often explains her motivation in revisiting a particular issue, framing a question differently, or explaining how her thinking has changed over time. These introductions are akin to an intellectual memoir in many ways. Diamond learned to read Wittgenstein through Anscombe's work. She is still learning from Anscombe, even as or because she disagrees with her in significant ways. Diamond displays an openness and humility about admitting where her own thinking was mistaken or where it might more productively go. Diamond tacks into and away from Anscombe's argument that there are some sentences that can only be true but are not allowed in Wittgenstein's Tractatus. Anscombe's example is "'Someone' is not the name of someone." Anscombe takes this sentence to be obviously true. Its denial is not obviously false, but only confusion or muddle. Diamond makes a convincing argument that Anscombe is wrong, but in a way that is productive. Anscombe failed to see that Wittgenstein allows for more uses of language than Anscombe and other commentators have allowed. Some propositions block paths leading to confusion and muddle while other indicate clarifying or productive paths. Acknowledging and understanding the difference between such propositions is one crucial way to avoid dangerous spots in our thinking. The two essays in the final section, "Going on to Think about Ethics," are masterful. They are two of the most insightful essays on the metaethical issue of relativism available. David Wiggins argues there are some thinkables to which there is no alternative; there is no intelligible negation. Wiggins offers as a candidate that there is nothing else to think but that slavery is unjustified and unsupportable. This proposition is akin to "7+5=12." There is nothing else to think but that 7+5=12. Wiggins's claim also has at least a surface similarity to Anscombe's example of "'Someone' is not the name of someone." Diamond's criticism of Wiggins is that he failed to recognize the structural complexity of moral thinking. As a consequence, he failed to see the path-blocking moves made by both defenders and opponents of slavery. Diamond's discussion is rooted in careful readings of historical texts about slavery. She excavates texts for what they reveal about thinking about slavery. In the process, she reminds us of Wittgenstein's warning about the craving for generality. That craving may send us down paths riddled with confusions and muddle that have very real consequences. Particular cases with their richness and complexity may lead in much more fruitful directions. This warning is one...

Ms. Blakk for President by Tina Landau and Tarell Alvin McCraney

Reviewed by: Ms. Blakk for President by Tina Landau and Tarell Alvin McCraney David Román MS. BLAKK FOR PRESIDENT. By Tina Landau and Tarell Alvin McCraney. Directed by Tina Landau. Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago. June 15, 2019. Ms. Blakk for President recuperates the forgotten life of Joan Jett Blakk and the communities from which this legendary Chicago drag queen emerged and thrived before their dramatic 1992 presidential run. A partnership between Tina Landau and Tarell Alvin McCraney—Steppenwolf ensemble members and longtime collaborators (Wig Out, The Brothers Size, Head of Passes)—the play focusses on Terence Alan Smith, the working-class black gay man who becomes Joan when in drag, but it also reaches further into the political culture of Chicago’s dynamic queer community. The play tells the story of Chicago’s Queer Nation and the city’s early 1990s queer club scene, of AIDS activism and drag culture, of intergenerational black queer kinship and multicultural political alliances. It is about all these things and more. Ms. Blakk for President is also much more than a play. The entire space outside Steppenwolf’s Upstairs Theatre where the play was performed offered an explosively visual scene that transported audiences back into the 1990s. The lobby was transformed into a repository of Queer Nation memorabilia—posters, stickers, photographs—that allowed audience members of all backgrounds and generations to immerse themselves in the period’s radical aesthetics and [End Page 350] Click for larger view View full resolution Tarell Alvin McCraney in Steppenwolf’s world premiere of Ms. Blakk for President by Tina Landau and Tarell Alvin McCraney. (Photo: Michael Brosilow.) [End Page 351] Click for larger view View full resolution Tarell Alvin McCraney and Patrick Andrews in Steppenwolf’s world premiere of Ms. Blakk for President by Tina Landau and Tarell Alvin McCraney. (Photo: Michael Brosilow.) politics. This colorful visual splash of history also set the tone for the evening, one that was festive yet reflective, celebratory yet mindful, at once a party and an homage. The walls—including those by the bathrooms, box office, and concession stands—were covered with pop art–inspired neon posters and stickers promoting Joan Jett Blakk for president and invoking the queer activist politics of the era. The accumulation of vibrant images and slogans spoke out against the assimilationist impulses among gay people and the rigidity of the gay/straight binary. One wall of hot pink posters announced “Joan Jett Blakk for President! I Want You Honey! Lick Bush in ’92, Queer Nation Party,” replacing Uncle Sam with a fabulously cartoonish image of Blakk pointing their finger. This intense, politically defiant energy of the lobby permeated the performance space, which was transformed into a queer nightclub. As audiences entered the theatre, the party was already thoroughly underway. Dancers gyrated throughout the theatre and the pulsing beat of club music was inescapable. Raked seating was positioned on either side of a runway platform that was the main stage of action. Cabaret table seating was also available on the main floor. David Zinn’s beautifully evocative scenic design was a visual archive of queer and activist cultures, and the sense of belonging and urgency of these communities was movingly embodied by a generation of younger actors who brought this lost history to life. The dancers, it turned out, were the actual cast and unbeknown to us, were already in character, at least partially. Each of the actors in the ensemble played multiple roles, but this first encounter at the club seemed as if the actors were very closely aligned with who they were outside of the theatre. One actor, in fact, Molly Brennan, the only woman in the cast, uneventfully walked into the theatre from the lobby during the dance prologue, nearly unseen by the audience, to write the name of someone who had died of HIV/ AIDS on one of the dozens of stars drawn on two sides of the space’s walls. Performing this ritual every night of the run, she selected the name from a list submitted earlier by the audience (one of the many interactive projects available in the lobby) to build an unassuming tribute to the dead. Brennan’s AIDS memorial...

Americans are more exposed to difference than we think: Capturing hidden exposure to political and racial difference

Use of name generators (NG) in assessing exposure to political difference has led to the conclusion that disagreement is uncommon. Data from two representative surveys tested a NG modification to probe for exposure to difference. Over half for whom NG results suggest no exposure to difference were able to name an alter who supported an alternative candidate. Over a quarter whose NG results indicate no exposure to a racial difference were able to name someone of the opposite race with whom they’d talked politics. These findings demonstrate that mixed or diverse networks are more common than prior NG research suggests.

Speculations on Spectacles: Jane Austen’s Eyeglasses, Mrs. Bates’s Spectacles, and John Saunders in Emma

Speculations on Spectacles: Jane Austen’s Eyeglasses, Mrs. Bates’s Spectacles, and John Saunders in <i>Emma</i>

Scratching Below the Core Network Surface: Capturing Hidden Exposure to Political Disagreement and Difference

One of the most common means by which network scholars have studied exposure to disagreement is through the name generator (e.g., Huckfeldt & Sprague, 1995; Mutz, 2006). Unfortunately, name generator methods suffer from a number of limitations, including severe limitations in the number of alters who can be identified. Accurately assessing the extent of political disagreement in discussion networks has become an important topic of recent research. Building on this work, the present paper used data from two national surveys – the 2012 U.S. Comparative National Elections Project (CNEP) survey and a May 2015 Race & Politics representative survey including a black oversample – to test the potential of a simple and efficient modification of name generator methods to probe for “hidden” exposure to difference. The findings highlight limitations of the traditional name generator, and suggest promise for the new approach. Over half of those for whom name generator results suggest no exposure to disagreement were able, in a follow-up, to name a discussion partner who supported an alternative candidate (2012 CNEP), and over a quarter of those whose name generator results indicate no exposure to a racially different alter were able to name someone of the opposite (Black vs. White) race with whom they’d talked politics (2015 Race & Politics). These findings suggest that mixed or diverse networks are far more common, and purely homophilous networks are far less common, than prior name generator research (Mutz, 2006) suggests. The implications for network measurement and democratic theory are discussed.

A new tool for foetal phonocardiography simulation.

Among diagnostic techniques for foetal monitoring, phonocardiography is gaining more and more interest for its low cost, passive nature and capability to detect some cardiac diseases. In spite of these characteristics, its use in clinical routine is still limited due to different troubles; for example, signals recorded through maternal abdomen show generally a quite low signal-to-noise ratio, so that detection and analysis of foetal heart sounds result very difficult. In this scenario, the availability of artificial phonocardiographic signals, simulated with conditions resembling different foetal conditions, week of gestation and noise amount, to name someone, can be a very useful tool to train medical staff. In this paper a software for phonocardiography simulation, updated to take account also of the split is presented. The software is completed with a user interface which allow to modify in a simple way simulation parameters. It is worth highlighting that this software can be useful also for testing performances of other analysis software and mathematical tools for recognising of valves components in the heart sounds.

EN, article personau onorific?

La microtoponimia de la zòna de L’Isla de Baish (30 km de Tolosa en zòna gascona) es fòrça mercada per la preséncia de EN + X que remonta au nom deu proprietari de la bòrda precedit de la particula onorifica EN. En tant qu’article personau, esperam que EN sia emplegat unicament davant noms de personas (En Martin, En Colau, eca.). L’usatge de EN davant un nom de mestièr suggerís duas ipotèsis : Sia dins En Gireta, Gireta es un nom de persona derivat d’un nom de mestièr e EN pòt èster encara article au moment de la formacion deu toponim. Sia dins En Gireta, Gireta es un nom de mestièr e supausa que EN es reanalisat coma preposicion au sens de “entà” au sens tolosan (en çò de). Mots claus : gascon tolosan ; occitan ; article onorific ; toponimia ; gramaticalizacion.

Caught in the Trap: The Allure of Deceptive Publishers

Caught in the Trap: The Allure of Deceptive Publishers

Reaching Out: Understanding the Puzzle of Cross-Party Nominations to the Lower United States Federal Courts

Scholars have argued that U.S. presidents use their judicial appointments to advance their political goals. However, on rare occasions, presidents nominate people who are not members of their political party to the judiciary. This study will examine the factors that affect the probability of a cross-party judicial nomination occurring, in order to better understand the goals that presidents are seeking to advance through these unusual actions. Looking at nominations to United States federal circuit courts and district courts between 1977 through 2004, the study finds that, controlling for a number of relevant factors, a greater number of opposition senators from a state and a higher level of electoral competition between the Republican and Democratic parties in a state increase the probability that a president will name someone from outside of his party from that state to a federal court vacancy. The findings support the hypothesis that presidents make cross-party judicial nominations to further their partisan electoral objectives, and as a response to institutional pressure from opposition senators through the use of Senate rules.

Pourquoi écrire sous le nom d'un autre ? Hypothèses sur le phénomène de la pseudépigraphie néotestamentaire

Why are some texts of the New Testament Pseudepigraphs? Regis Burnet reviews the various responses that have been brought to this question and comes to the conclusion that the phenomenon is best explained as a reinterpretation of the work of an apostle by his disciples. He warns, however, against a naive understanding of this explanation by reminding that writing under the name of someone else was never an innocent activity in classical antiquity: the practice must challenge our notions of truth and faithfulness as well as our understanding of inspiration.

Five Poems

Five Poems Kim Min-Jeong (bio) Translated by Jeon Seung-hee (bio) Unexpected Effect In the dead of winter, children in Kangwŏn Province Brandish dried pollacks, Which indeed make a swishing sound quite like swords. Excited, children brandish them even more. As the edge is everything to a sword, The best part of a dried pollack is its body. Dried pollacks, served in a soup for breakfast — My younger sister spoons it first, As if she were the head of our family, Because she is lactating. [End Page 307] Minjeong’s Mom, Hagi’s Mom Two women in the warmer part of the ondol room Laugh, slapping each other’s back. Returning from a supermarket thirty minutes away With a tub of Together,1 with three spoons stuck in it, they Laugh, pinching each other’s thigh. One of them abruptly stands up, saying, “It started.” On the floor, there’s Blood as if from a nosebleed, what you find after rubbing what felt like a snivel. “You still do it? You must be fed up, huh!” One of them, taking off her white socks and wiping the floor with them, Laughs, rolling her two blood-smeared socks. Friends. [End Page 308] Not Knowing Well Mom filleted her own hands while filleting halibut. I took her to the emergency room and laid her on the bed. Her doctor’s name was Kim Kŭn of all names.2 Oh, does Kŭn mean ‘root’? Your name is the same as the name of someone I know. He was busy stitching. There’s a poet named Kim Kŭn . . . Busy stitching, he didn’t say a word. There is such a word as No-good-feeling. [End Page 309] Not Ugly, but Hideous Past midnight, in front of a toy stall across the street from the Kumkang Shoe Store, a man is picking a stuffed animal for a woman. The woman points to an extra-large white bear, almost as tall as herself. Since I cannot sleep without you, I’ll sleep with him in my arms whenever you’re away. The vendor briskly cleans the white bear wrapped in clear plastic with a duster. Knitting her brows, the woman folds her arms. The vendor vigorously cleans the white bear wrapped in clear plastic with a dry cloth. Don’t you have a new one? The white bear became a silver bear because of all the dust. The vendor goes to the next stall, borrows an extra-large white bear, and comes back, carrying it on her back like a grown child. Meanwhile, the man and woman go across the street. They are already on the other side, as the green light was blinking, as it in fact suited them to run away with lightning speed. Damn you, sons of bitches, you, fuckers! Once, we asked a vendor who was selling the national flags to take them out so we could take a good look. We negotiated the price with her as if we were going to buy one, but then ran away with lightning speed, after saying it’s too expensive. Like the man and woman, we probably deserved the curse she threw at us with her fist raised, Damn you! Because we were in love. [End Page 310] A Happiness Called Harm The man who proposed to me on the day we first met Dumped me exactly a month later. Announcing the break-up, he said: What did you say when we were passing by the bus terminal one night? All the buses come back to sleep, as it’s getting late. You pretended to be innocent, didn’t you? Because you’re a poet? Is that poetry? I didn’t realize. You didn’t laugh at all while we were watching My Boss, My Teacher, did you? It’s because it wasn’t funny at all. I would have laughed if it were. You put on airs, didn’t you? Because you’re a poet? Is that poetry? I didn’t realize. You ate the rose petal decorations on the plate of snapper sashimi, didn’t you? It’s because I didn’t want to waste those...

Fallax Imago: Ovid's Narcissus and the seduction of mimesis in Roman wall painting

In the late first century CE, the myth of Narcissus became one of the most frequently represented subjects in Roman wall painting. The well-known, often reproduced images from the House of Octavius...