Sunday, November 18, 2012

The Land of the Dead

Circe tells Odysseus that he must go see Teiresia in the Land of the Dead if he wishes to go home. 

"Then I addressed the blurred and breathless dead , vowing to slaughter my best heifer for them before she calved," and I also "swore to sacrifice a black lamb." The prophet tells me that I will encounter pain and aguish. I will face death , denial , and restraint. My future does not sound happy in any sense of the word ...

--Odysseus

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