AutobiographyOfRed

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While not as spectacular as TheBeautyOfTheHusband this book has it’s moments. It scared me a bit after having stopped reading. It starts out making excuses. But good ones. She begins by speaking of her debt to Stesichoros:

Stesichoros released being. All the substances of the world went floating up. she said.

WikiPedia:Geryon
The Labors of Herakles

I suppose I liked this aspect of it most. That it is a re-framing of a myth, and what’s more, taking it from the point of view of one of Herakles’ victims. The blending of the myth world and the modern world is beautiful. I love Geryon’s wings and how he knows he is a monster, a god.

But, as usual it is the coy, ironic things Anne comes up with which make me love her.
There is not much i would take out of context in this book. I would need to type entire passages to make it clear. Hers is a series of book worth having just to be reminded that words can be that clever, can turn that way.

I like the feeling of words doing
as they want to do and as they have to do
--Gertrude Stein

Volcanos
XXXII. KISS

• A healthy volcano is an exercise in the uses of pressure.
• It was a typical tango song and she had the throat full of needles you need to sing it.
  Tangos are terrible -
• Geryon moved the focal ring from 3 to 3.5 meters
  Maybe I’ll just keep talking
  and if I say anything intelligent you can take a picture of it She inhaled.
• Saturday went whitely on.
• Now we are insterting sap of the queen of the night you will feel a pinch then a black flow, said Herakles