“Let Gawain stay out there a hundred nights,
the little wonder boy,
with his thin blanket and his cold armor and his useless sword,
until he understands exactly how the glory of the protagonist
is always paid for by a lot of secondary characters.
In the morning he will wake and gallop back to safety;
he will hear his name embroidered into toasts and songs.
But now he knows there is a country he had not accounted for,
and that country has its citizens:
the one-armed baker sweeping out his shop at 4 A.M.;
soldiers fitting every horse in Prague with diapers before the emperor’s arrival;
and that woman in the nursing home,
who has worked there for a thousand years,
taking away the bedpans,
lifting up and wiping off the soft heroic buttocks of Odysseus.”
-Tony Hoagland-
The story of Persephone is just one embodiment of the universal story of the dying and rising god. Her decent into the Underworld is an ode to the change of seasons and a coming of age story. Join me in creating a modern retelling of this story from the meta-myth level (not just the story of Persephone, but so many other myths too!) where we focus on the characters and their motives.
Hosted and narrated by:
Lillabet Fyre (Firebirdschild)
Started 08/27/21.
Scenes played: 1
License: Community License
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