The daffodils have begun to flower. Narcissus emerges from the ground. The Greeks named the flower for a boy who could not look away. The myth remembers something about spring that the botanical name preserves without explaining: that the eye, given something sufficiently beautiful, stops. The will follows the gaze. The season announces itself throughContinue reading “Narcissus”
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Katabasis
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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