09-10-2024, 05:51 AM
All the references you mention work. Though the Oregon one wasn't something I knew anything about.
The God reference is there, though through poetic license to a modern reader.
The friends are the dogs and the trees and the books and whoever else.
And Diogenes is calling himself the god of the book he is writing, or the poem itself, writing about himself and others.
He's writing about himself. And he's reflecting on his relation to dogs and trees and books and people. Reflecting on his own needs and attachments, despite claiming to dismiss everything.
Living in nature to dismiss attachments and being upset when trees are cut down is simply another attachment to complain about. Along with friends and books and yourself and your poems and so on.
The God reference is there, though through poetic license to a modern reader.
The friends are the dogs and the trees and the books and whoever else.
And Diogenes is calling himself the god of the book he is writing, or the poem itself, writing about himself and others.
He's writing about himself. And he's reflecting on his relation to dogs and trees and books and people. Reflecting on his own needs and attachments, despite claiming to dismiss everything.
Living in nature to dismiss attachments and being upset when trees are cut down is simply another attachment to complain about. Along with friends and books and yourself and your poems and so on.