Sappho's Leap
“—SAPPHO WOULD LEAPING REALLY CURE hopeless love? So the legend went. I stopped on the isle of Leucas to see the fabled great white rock, which I had never beheld with my own eyes. I knew only the myths that swirled about it like mist on Mount Olympus. Some said in ancient times prisoners were hurled from the rock to purge the island of evil. Those who perished were presumed to be guilty. Those who survived were pardoned. Later, in the curious way legends are transformed, the place became a love...rs’ leap. I had always dreamed of seeing it. But equally I feared it.
The cliff was prodigious. One sheer side of naked rock beetled over the sea. The rock seemed jaggedly torn and the wind howled around it. I planned to visit the shrine of Apollo on the promontory, then continue on to Delphi, where my old bones knew that Alcaeus would be waiting for me. And if he was not? Then I would do whatever I would do. I refused to fret about it. My life was in Aphrodite’s soft hands.
As usual, nothing worked out as I had planned.MoreLess
The cliff was prodigious. One sheer side of naked rock beetled over the sea. The rock seemed jaggedly torn and the wind howled around it. I planned to visit the shrine of Apollo on the promontory, then continue on to Delphi, where my old bones knew that Alcaeus would be waiting for me. And if he was not? Then I would do whatever I would do. I refused to fret about it. My life was in Aphrodite’s soft hands.
As usual, nothing worked out as I had planned.MoreLess
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