concept
Lethe
also: Лета
In Greek myth, the river of the underworld whose waters bring forgetfulness to the dead; the outgoing year's mock-will jokes that it is taking the poet Stalinsky with it into oblivion.
Reading notes
- The Case of the Year 1884 (From Our Correspondent) §37 the Lethe
In Greek myth, the river of the underworld whose waters bring forgetfulness to the dead; here used as a mock sentence of exile, i.e. oblivion, for the outgoing year.
- The Liberal §61 into Lethe
In Greek myth, the underworld river whose waters bring the dead forgetfulness; the outgoing year jokes that it is dragging the poet Stalinsky down with it into oblivion.