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τέκνον, τί κλαίεις;
This Friday I will be taking part in the memorial for Dr. Fiveash: An Evening of Truth and Beauty: A Tribute to Doc 5. I will be reading three of my poems: "Catullus V.101," "Aetiologies," and "Ψάπφοι Σελάννα." The first appeared previously in Lost and Lonely and the third in Apex Magazine #47. The central piece was written for Dr. Fiveash's memory in October and has never even been sent out for publication. I am reading it by request. Looking at the names in the Patch announcement, it shouldn't even be the strangest or most classical thing on the program.
The event is a fundraiser as well as a memorial, with all proceeds going toward a scholarship and a teaching award in Dr. Fiveash's name, so here is where I encourage anyone who ever had a teacher they loved or a language that fired their heart to check out the further details on Facebook and chip in. Boston-area people, it's is free and open to the public. Cary Hall in Lexington, two blocks from the Rancatore's on Mass. Ave. Come spend Friday night with the shades and the living, the remembering and the beloved. It'll be like Book 11 of the Odyssey, only less bloody. And afterward we all find home.
The event is a fundraiser as well as a memorial, with all proceeds going toward a scholarship and a teaching award in Dr. Fiveash's name, so here is where I encourage anyone who ever had a teacher they loved or a language that fired their heart to check out the further details on Facebook and chip in. Boston-area people, it's is free and open to the public. Cary Hall in Lexington, two blocks from the Rancatore's on Mass. Ave. Come spend Friday night with the shades and the living, the remembering and the beloved. It'll be like Book 11 of the Odyssey, only less bloody. And afterward we all find home.
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Nine
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I have no idea what to expect except wonder.
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Then I was going to ask if it was actually a quote from something - but then I realized that's what google is for.
So instead: How/why are you guys getting Amanda-frickin'-Palmer to perform at the memorial? duuude.
[right. That's what wikipedia is for. Huh, you never told me she was a fellow LHS alum!]
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Damn! I had no idea. I take it there's no way of spending Thursday with people in the city?
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It's what Thetis asks Achilles when she finds him weeping beside the sea in Book I of the Iliad: Child, why are you crying? The reason is Briseis, but it foreshadows all the later rage and loss. It's quoted in "Aetiologies" because that was the passage of Greek Michael who was not yet Dr. Fiveash was reading, an undergraduate at Harvard, when he began to cry, because he could understand it.
Huh, you never told me she was a fellow LHS alum!
It never came up! (Either we overlapped for a year or she graduated right before I got there; I can't remember how many years older than me she is right now.) I actually glimpsed the Dresden Dolls' 2001 EP for the first time on Dr. Fiveash's shelf one of the times I went back to say hi while my brother was still in high school. I didn't hear it till years later. Long after A Is for Accident and their self-titled album.
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It's one of the most appropriate ways he could be remembered. I'm glad they chose it, and I'm glad to be part of the remembering. You can't really give back to the dead, but you can do a lot for the living.