Word: goddessers
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...snatched from the funeral pyre by his fellow romantic, Trelawney. Or of Dylan Thomas, a sacrificial votary of drink (Olympian draughts, of course). Since the winter day in 1963 when Sylvia Plath turned on the gas and laid her head in her kitchen oven, she has become a goddess of the thanatophiliacs...
...city decadence, and its conservatives bewailed the fact, especially when the rot seemed to have invaded the Imperial Palace. "His Highness (the Emperor) sings songs called nagebushi," complained one lord in 1718. "These are licentious tunes. It is extremely improper that a descendant of the revered Sun Goddess should do such things . . . which not even a right-thinking shopkeeper would...
Fourth, I was a virgin. And being fed on nineteenth century novels, I believed in "romantic love." And I had no intentions of losing my precious status until I was good and ready. Fourth strike--I was, by virtue of my female sex, a prick tease, a Bitch Goddess...
...Martha, what you must realize is that you are not a goddess," a teacher once told Martha Graham. "You must admit mortality." That was well over half a century ago, and Graham still gives no hint of admitting that she is mortal. "I've just entered a new cycle of energy," explains America's most inventive modern dancer. "I'm going through a rebirth-with anything artistic one must die to be reborn...
Howls of pain and madness echo through these pages: Heracles tearing at the poisoned shirt on his back as a dead monster's venom scalds his veins; Ajax on the plains of Troy-big, dumb Ajax, crazed by the goddess Athene-slashing bulls' throats and breaking the backs of sheep dogs under the delusion that he is slaying his enemies...