Satires (Horace) similes, and the fiction of an anonymous interlocutor whose objections the speaker easily refutes. In addition, Horace alludes to another inspiration, the poet Lucretius whose didactic epic "De rerum natura" ("On the Nature of Things"), also written in hexameters, popularized Epicurean physics in Rome. For example, Horace's comparison of his satires with cookies that a teacher uses to encourage his students to learn their letters, reminds of Lucretius' more traditional comparison of his poetry with the sugar that sweetens the bitter medicine of philosophy. Moreover, Lucretian stock phrases such as "nunc ad rem redeo" ("now I return to the matter
Carmen Novoa Uruguay featured Carmen in 2 full inside pages in color regarding her poetry book Evasion/Evasion and her paintings. In 2005 Carmen held and art exhibition in the Uruguayan national library there she also launched her book Evasion/Evasion. With the sponsorship of Uruguayan born Telmo Languiller, speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, Carmen brought together 24 artists and coordinated a Latin art exhibition in Parliament House, Melbourne building. This was historically recorded as it was the first art exhibition held in Parliament house then again in 2004. In 2003, Novoa organised the Spanish and Latin American exhibition of painting, sculpture and