| Sumario: | Discusses the lyric discourse and the production of gender in "Odes" 1.13, where Horace combines aspects of reading, writing, and bodily production to explore not just the metaphorical possibilities of the body in literature but also its larger role within literary discourse. Link of the ode’s treatment of bodies and Peter Brooks’ suggestion that the body alone is prelinguistic, even alien to language; Reading other men’s bodies as an important skill; Men's treatment of women’s bodies as texts, under different circumstances and with different motivations; Three different bodies that are both written upon and read in "Odes" 1.13; Bodies of Telephus, Lydia and Horace; Apparent awkward collision of literary potency and erotic failure; Criticisms of Horace’s amatory lyric for its speakers’ apparent lack of emotional engagement in their own erotic scenarios.
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