Notes from Source: In “Mimnermos: The Brainsex Paintings”, Ann Carson illustrates how academic readers fall in love with their subjects. An intimate relationship with the author. It is divided in three parts: the first one presents fragments from Mimnermos, an archaic Greek lyric poet from the seventh century. The second part is an essay, in which Carson explores the poet’s preferred themes: time and hedonism. The third is an interview featuring Mimnermos. The poem as a whole is a literary triptych, each part representing different ways of reading. It is the portrait of the erotic love that occurs between reader and writer.