![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What had Aeëtes called an ugly nymph? A stain upon the face of the world. I looked down at my body and tried to imagine it written over with its history: my palm with its lightning streak, my hand missing its fingers, the thousand cuts from my witch-work, the gristled furrows of my father’s fire And those were only the things that had left marks. The final moments unravel just as the do. He kept them on his person as other men keep their knives. The show closes with Kate’s funeral, where she has made arrangements to accomodate Tully, who can’t go inside over the grief of losing her best friend. I might have told him, in those hours, stories of my own His face would be intent as he listened, his relentless mind examining, weighing and cataloguing He would gather my weaknesses up and set them with the rest of his collection, alongside Achilles’ and Ajax’s. Whoever saw him must salute and say: There is a man who has seen the world. Enduring Odysseus, he was, and the name was stitched into his skin. The celebration resembles many other Catholic. An Amazon Best Book of April 2018: Though revisiting classical myths, Madeline Miller’s bold, poetic new novel, told in the voice of Circe (Odysseus’s lover, famous for turning his sailors into swine), is very much on-trend, with an immortal protagonist and a feminist slant that will make MeToo-ers cheer. ![]() The scars themselves I offered to wipe away. Every year on May 1st the small town of Cocullo in central Italy celebrates its patron saint San Domenico Abate. ![]()
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