Wednesday, March 06, 2002
Vaster than Empires and more slow.
Strange at Ecbatan the Trees was a novel whose title always haunted me. I wondered where the name Ectaban came from, it's one of those evocative names that somehow get attached to a place, like Los Angeles, or Heliopolis. I finally found it in the poem "You, Andrew Marvell". Which is a appropiate as "To His Coy Mistress" has another equally evocative title-inspirng line "Vaster than Empires and More Slow". So, poets are the unacknowldeged title makers of the world.
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