Note to players: Either an original-language term or its common English translation is acceptable.According to one essay, this concept affects Los as he “comes crashing down in our Creation-Fall” and “stems from a ’Pataphysical sense of the arbitrary.” This concept was called parenklisis in the “Letter to Herodotus.” The “strong poet” can say “I lie here in a Hell improved by my own making” per a chapter titled for this concept, which contrasts the Sphinx with Blake’s “Covering Cherub.” This concept illustrates (*) “poetic misprision” in the first “Revisionary Ratio” of Harold Bloom’s The Anxiety of Influence. This concept titles a book about Poggio Bracciolini’s rediscovery of De rerum natura by Stephen Greenblatt. For 10 points, Lucretius introduced what concept to Epicurean atomism by positing unpredictable deviations from an atom’s typical fall? ■END■
ANSWER: clinamen [or the clinamen atomorum, swerve, or declination; accept parenklisis until read; accept The Swerve; prompt on poetic misprision until read by asking “what other concept is mentioned in the title of that essay?”]
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