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Project Gutenberg on Nostr: The Long History of a Short Form. The aphorism, from Hippocrates to Maggie Nelson. By ...

The Long History of a Short Form.
The aphorism, from Hippocrates to Maggie Nelson.

By Ryan Ruby via @laphamsquart

For a word that literally means definition, the aphorism is a rather indefinite genre. It bears a family resemblance to the fragment, the proverb, the maxim, the hypomnema, the epigram, the mantra, the parable, and the prose poem.

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/long-history-short-form

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