Anne Carson
Column: The Madness of Herakles
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Eric O. Scott considers the questions about the nature of the gods raised in Anne Carson’s translation of Euripides’s play “Herakles.”
Paganism
Column: All That Is Without You
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I’m friends with the monster that’s under my bed
Get along with the voices inside of my head
You’re trying to save me, stop holding your breath
And you think I’m crazy, you think I’m crazy
–Monsters, Eminem (featuring Rihanna)
The gods are madness, and so is love. I couldn’t sleep for the noise; her wails clawing deep into my brain more fiercely when I’d close my eyes. In waking distraction, I could shut her out a little — loud music, pointless conversation, anything to drown out her pain. But in bed next to my lover, her pain was intolerable, becoming pain so loud it became my pain, and I couldn’t make her shut up. I tried drinking.