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Across the great glittering sea I watched you
cutting to pieces the body of your brother --
barely blushed with manhood, young and soft
as a child, with only the sun on his cheeks --
and, throwing the fingers over to the water
and to the fish and to your father close behind --
why was it I felt no great shudder then
beyond the lurch of the waves against the boat,
no dread tremble in my belly, knowing as I knew
what it was you could do with your two red hands?
Oh, it's the fate of men: to see no shores beyond the one
to which they are at the one moment rowing!
(c) Jaida Jones, 2004
cutting to pieces the body of your brother --
barely blushed with manhood, young and soft
as a child, with only the sun on his cheeks --
and, throwing the fingers over to the water
and to the fish and to your father close behind --
why was it I felt no great shudder then
beyond the lurch of the waves against the boat,
no dread tremble in my belly, knowing as I knew
what it was you could do with your two red hands?
Oh, it's the fate of men: to see no shores beyond the one
to which they are at the one moment rowing!
(c) Jaida Jones, 2004
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I don't know whether it has been translated, but have you ever heard of the book "Medea", of the author Christa Wolf?
I had to think of that book, which I quite like even though I had to read it in school. Christa Wolf reinterprets the story of Medea in a very interesting way, making her the victim instead of the witch and murderer. To me, that interpretation is interesting, because that's what Medea used to be in the oldest versions of the Greek mythology.
I had to think of that book, which I quite like even though I had to read it in school. Christa Wolf reinterprets the story of Medea in a very interesting way, making her the victim instead of the witch and murderer. To me, that interpretation is interesting, because that's what Medea used to be in the oldest versions of the Greek mythology.