Dare to Mutmut: Making New Proverbs from Apuleius to Badlands Unlimited

29th April 2017Apuleius, Badlands Unlimited, Minus Plato Today, New Proverbs, Paul Chan, proverbsApuleius, Badlands Unlimited, New Proverbs, Paul Chan, proverbsMinus Plato

How can you make a new proverb? Aren’t proverbs just old sayings, grounded in common experience, mere nuggets of popular wisdom, without origins, without authors? So when someone claims to make a new proverb, something interesting must be happening. Apuleius of Madauros, writing in the 2nd Century CE, renowned for his novel about a man-donkey, […]

Caligula hates the gods and the gods hate Caligula: Badlands Unlimited’s New Proverbs

22nd January 2017Badlands Unlimited, Minus Plato Today, New Proverbs, The Suetonius GalleryBadlands Unliited, New Proverbs, The Suetonius GalleryMinus Plato

That such opposed vices, both the greatest arrogance and the greatest timidity, were to be found in the same person, I have no doubt in attributing to his mental infirmity. For this man, who had so little respect for the gods, would, at the slightest hint of thunder or lightning, close his eyes and over […]