What this project is about.
This one is from Book 8.
How long it took to read this (aloud): 10 mins 25
What it’s “about”: King Nisus could have spared everyone a lot of trouble if he’d just given his daughter a vibrator… I mean, a LOT of trouble.
Words I didn’t know: xx
Quotable quotes:
She strode to Minos’ camp and stood before him.
“Love guided me,” she said, “my name is Scylla,
Daughter of Nisus. Here’s my heritage,
My country’s wealth and honours — all is yours;
And all I ask is, take me in your arms.
This purple plume is my true sign of love.
It’s yours, this shock of hair clipped from the center
Of an old man’s skull, more than his life to him,
My father’s treasure.” And with guilt-tainted hand
She thrust it toward him while King Minos shuddered,
Drew back at this new horror in his eyes,
And said, “I hope the very gods in heaven —
O darkest monster of the age we live in —
Send curses on you from both land and sea,
Nor shall you rest in Crete, my world, my island,
The sacred nursery of infant Jove!”
AND
Then whip me, punish me, O Nisus, father!
And you, the very walls of my dead city
Take glory from my sorrow and these tears,
For I have earned my death. Let Hatred come,
Let those whom I’ve betrayed take toll of me;
AND
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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