Critics have long wondered about the setting and intent of the Old English translation of Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae, first into prose and then into prosimetrum. This article situates the dual translation within the broader context of ninth- and tenth-century literary culture, challenging the received view of the two versions as separate projects and arguing instead that the Old English Boethius was conceived and received as a vernacular opus geminatum, or ‘twinned work’. While the opus geminatum and the prosimetrum are generally thought to maintain distinct generic identities, this case study allows for a more capacious understanding of both modes, which I demonstrate were inescapably linked in Anglo-Saxon circles – and which were shaped by a broader aesthetic of prose-verse mixture.
Introduction and hypothesis The objective was to evaluate total and incident mesh exposure rates at least 2 years after minimally invasive total hysterectomy and sacrocolpopexy. Secondary aims were to evaluate surgical success and late adverse events. Methods This extension study included women previously enrolled in the multicenter randomized trial of permanent vs delayed-absorbable suture with lightweight mesh for > stage II uterovaginal prolapse. Owing to COVID-19, women were given the option of an in-person (questionnaires and examination) or telephone visit (questionnaires only). The primary outcome was total and incident suture or mesh exposure, or symptoms suggestive of mesh exposure in women without an examination. Secondary outcomes were surgical success, which was defined as no subjective bulge, no prolapse beyond the hymen, and no pelvic organ prolapse retreatment, and adverse events. Results A total of 182 out of 200 previously randomized participants were eligible for inclusion, of whom 106 (58%) women (78 in-person and 28 via questionnaire only) agreed to the extension study. At a mean of 3.9 years post-surgery, the rate of mesh or suture exposure was 7.7% (14 out of 182) of whom only 2 were incident cases reported after 1-year follow-up. None reported vaginal bleeding or discharge, dyspareunia, or penile dyspareunia. Surgical success was 93 out of 106 (87.7%): 13 out of 94 (13.8%) failed by bulge symptoms, 2 out of 78 (2.6%) by prolapse beyond the hymen, 1 out of 85 (1.2%) by retreatment with pessary, and 0 by retreatment with surgery. There were no serious adverse events. Conclusions The rate of incident mesh exposure between 1 and 3.9 years post-surgery was low, success rates remained high, and there were no delayed serious adverse events.
Tell me about the dream where we pull the bodies out of the lake and dress them in warm clothes again. How it was late, and no one could sleep, the horses running until they forget that they are horses."-Richard Siken, "Scheherazade" "Tell me" makes for a slippery beginning. It conjures a tête-à-tête, sure, but in Siken's poem, any seeming tenderness disappears before the implicit violence signaled by the eponymous addressee: Scheherazade, who must wield her storytelling to ward off execution in the Islamic Golden Age frametale narrative now known as One Thousand and One Nights. This isn't ordinary pillow talk, then. Like Siken's bodies and horses, the verb to tell is itself evocative and even risky. Telling, or not telling, can be dangerous. Think of telling a secret, telling someone off, or, riskier still, telling on someone else. And it is certainly true that nothing good ever follows from the warning, "I am going to tell you something." In both senses of the word (discrimination between possibilities and communication), it can be difficult to tell what's going on. So, what can we do with telling, and especially with the act of telling about yourself to another person in pursuit of your own preservation-in short, in another word, with confession? How should we proceed when we can't seem to induce a text to tell us much of anything atall? Or when the dangers of speaking become more overt both in the present and in the past, when even the act of telling risks obliterating rather than affirming the self?
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