achilloras:I turned around to see Iphigenia approaching the altar slowly and proudly, chin up, an oc
achilloras:I turned around to see Iphigenia approaching the altar slowly and proudly, chin up, an occasional quiver of her lips betraying her inward terror. When she saw me she flinched as if I had struck her; I gazed down through the windows of her eyes to see her last hope destroy itself.- Colleen McCullough, The Song of TroyThe day your slack sail drank my sister’s breathThe flat sea purpled like that evil clothMy mother unrolled at your last homecoming.- Sylvia Plath, Electra on Azalea Pathwatershed : a mix for Iphigenia, the girl sacrificed to her father’s pride, to the bride who met her groom at the wrong altar, to the girl who still waits to get her justice. -- source link
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