Read the final sequence of stories in TH's Tales from Ovid at quite a lick today. Glad I did. Masterful storytelling. Never a false note. And so varied within the repetitions.
Impossible to pick a favourite. But I'll do so anyway: Arachne. Perfect in every way. Brutal yet sympathetic. The metamorphosis so simply rendered: And now she is all belly // With a dot of head. Monosyllabic magic.
Just started Birthday Letters, and the change of tone is startling. Astonishing to think that a single year separated the publication of these final books.
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