Neil Gaiman’s Sandman recasts Orpheus as the son of the Dream King, but otherwise leaves the ancient tragedy intact. In the television adaptation, Orpheus survives as an immortal, severed head, speaking calmly, prophetically, and with the explicit wish for death. He is neither alive nor dead, suspended between worlds. Gaiman uses this image to exploreContinue reading “Katabasis”
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Orpheus
Orpheus enters the story before the world has settled. Before cities harden into law.Before heroism becomes labor.Before descent acquires technique. He is born from music, not violence. A son of Calliope, sometimes of Apollo. His power does not break resistance; it rearranges it. Stones move. Trees follow. Animals pause. What yields to Orpheus does notContinue reading “Orpheus”
Library of Borges
The feature image – used on the Resources page – doesn’t begin to capture the size of the library Borges imagined in his short story The Library of Babel, a library with unimaginable mathematics. What would the card catalog system for such a physical library be like? The Central Social Institute of Prague (1937) offersContinue reading “Library of Borges”
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