What this project is about.
This one is from Book 2.
How long it took to read this (aloud): 8mins 25s
What it’s “about”: Mercury wants to get his leg over with Herse, and enlists Herse’s sister, Aglauros to help it happen. Minerva cockblocks Mercury by enlisting a really nasty piece of work with halitosis, “Envy”. Envy turns Aglauros mean, and Mercury, fed up, turns Algauros the cockblockerr to a block of stone.
https://fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/explore-our-collection/highlights/143
Words I didn’t know: none
Quotable quotes:
It seemed the girl would have her crooked way
With Mercury, friendship with him and bribes
To make her rich
xxx
Its sagging doors, which, swaying inward, showed
Envy at feat, eating great snakes and vipers,
A perfect diet for increase of venom.
xxx
Envy moaned
Changing her face to suit Minerva’s sigh
Grew death-pale, and her body seemed to shrink
Eyes wild, teeth thick with mold, gall dripping green
To breast, green from her tongue, for Envy never
SMiles unless she sees another’s misery….
And where she walked all flowers died
Grass perished, and blight ran over tops of
Highest trees, and as she breathed she tainted
The streets of peopled towns, even in homes
xxx
With festered hands
She stroked Aglauros’ breast, then placed within
Her heart a nest of thorns, then filled her nostrils,
Until it reached down bone and tissue, with black
Venomous breath.
xxx
At this Aglauros ate at her own heart,
Haggard by day, in misery by night…
How it lands to my eco-sensibility: xx
Obvious allusions, ways it was used (that I am aware of already) : xx
What I know I didn’t ‘get’: xx
To my knowledge, who’s used it why/how (RACC): xx
Further research questions: xx
Anything else: xx
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