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Then the darkness parted, and he came. Huge he was, white and gray, burned onto the depths like an afterimage of the sun. His silent wings rippled, rills of current flowing off their tips. His eyes were thin and slitted like a cat’s, his mouth a bloodless slash. I stared. When I had stepped into the water, I had told myself that this would be only
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WIP definitions:
Aganippe : In Greek legend, a fountain of Boetia at the foot of Mount Helicon, dedicated to the MUSES because it imparted poetic inspiration. Hence the Muses are sometimes called Aganippides. Also the NYMPH of this fountain.
ages: Hesiod (8th century BC): golden, silver, brazen, heroic, iron (also planets) — Shakespeare's 7 ages in A
address books. It was amazing that during this time Jacaranda didn’t make any lifelong enemies. She would go to the Bamboo Café every night and ask movie producers, “Are you really casting Cher as Medea?” Or to her artist friends she’d say, “Kurt Schwitters already did that. Twice.”
Eve Babitz • Sex and Rage: A Novel
my mind slid away, like a fish who would not be caught.
Madeline Miller • The Song of Achilles: A Novel
There are lots of different strains of witches in literature, from the hag (Macbeth’s Weird Sisters) to the foreign witch (Sycorax and Medea) to Circe’s own type, the sexy witch. But they all have one thing in common: they are women with more power than other people—men especially—think they should have.
Madeline Miller • CIRCE
In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out the sun.
Madeline Miller • The Song of Achilles: A Novel
Rayya: whom I never saw coming, had not planned for, and could not control.