There needs to be big energy, the thrill & excitement & terror of storms, floods, great armies clashing, so many young men rushing, killing, dying. I need lots of words for noise & quick momentous movement. "Clash" & "Dash" are useful words. But I can't over-use them— Emily Wilson (@EmilyRCWilson) January 2, 2020
So I tried to get some inspiration for vocabulary by re-reading the start of the Tempest, and realized that Miranda uses "dash" twice in four lines ("dashes the fire out... dashed all to pieces"). Unhelpful.— Emily Wilson (@EmilyRCWilson) January 2, 2020
It's common in Homer to describe a killing with the verb luo, "to release": luse de guia, "he released his limbs". In English , we are not likely to imagine the parts of the body as a system of knots, untied at death. How much can I retain the foreign idioms?— Emily Wilson (@EmilyRCWilson) January 2, 2020