Word: polifemo
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...primordial is personified in Polifemo, the gigantic demon who heaves up hairily out of millennial memory once every year and incites all Agrigento to resume the prehistoric and obscene religion of carnival. As carnival impends, an imminence like electricity waits in the air, an itching in the mind invites convulsion. Convulsion begins: a Bacchic ecstasy of vino nero, roaring scooters, rock 'n' roll. Howard, a tidy Nordic, draws back in distaste. Sarah, a subliminal Mediterranean, is drawn toward delirium. One morning, imagining her intentions innocent, she lets a young bull of a Sicilian kiss...
...pulled back, astounded. His eyes were blinded flares like a racer's lights in the night. He hit her in the face. She fell apart." In the catastrophic conclusion of the tale, the world of sense and structure falls apart and leaves the scene to darkness and to Polifemo...
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