Chimera (2015)
“Melanippe said when she read Part One. “I can’t believe you wrote this mess.”
I asked her, hurt, how so; I thought it not half bad, considering.
“Because,” she cried. “It’s a lie! It’s false! It’s full of holes! I didn’t write any of it; you did, every word. And you make out that I’m all emancipated and no hang-ups and immortal and stuff, and that’s crazy. Content my ass! Content is a death-word in my book; if I were Medusa and I asked Perseus if he was happy to spend eternity with me a...nd he said he was content, I’d spit in his eye! Okay, you got the Amazon business pretty straight, but I’m amazed at your picture of me: you know very well I’m not immortal except in that special way I told you about: the ‘Melanippe-self’ way. I’m on the verge of my Full Moon, and I feel every lunar month of it: just in the time it’s taken you to write these pages I’ve gained ten kilos and aged five ‘years.’ That very first night in Tiryns, I told you how my nurse Hippolyta in Corinth told me that my mother was a crazy Amazon deaf-mute who killed herself when I was born, and my father a hero on a white horse who’d left her on the stable roof one night.MoreLess
I asked her, hurt, how so; I thought it not half bad, considering.
“Because,” she cried. “It’s a lie! It’s false! It’s full of holes! I didn’t write any of it; you did, every word. And you make out that I’m all emancipated and no hang-ups and immortal and stuff, and that’s crazy. Content my ass! Content is a death-word in my book; if I were Medusa and I asked Perseus if he was happy to spend eternity with me a...nd he said he was content, I’d spit in his eye! Okay, you got the Amazon business pretty straight, but I’m amazed at your picture of me: you know very well I’m not immortal except in that special way I told you about: the ‘Melanippe-self’ way. I’m on the verge of my Full Moon, and I feel every lunar month of it: just in the time it’s taken you to write these pages I’ve gained ten kilos and aged five ‘years.’ That very first night in Tiryns, I told you how my nurse Hippolyta in Corinth told me that my mother was a crazy Amazon deaf-mute who killed herself when I was born, and my father a hero on a white horse who’d left her on the stable roof one night.MoreLess
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