Eros the Bittersweet
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Eros the Bittersweet (1986) is a collection of essays by Anne Carson.
Incipit: "It was Sappho who first called eros 'bittersweet.' No one who has been in love disputes her. What does the word mean?" Excerpt:
- "Once upon a time, the story goes, cicadas were human beings, before the birth of the Muses. When the Muses were born and song came into being, some of these creatures were so struck by the pleasure of it that they sang and sang, forgot to eat and drink, and died before they knew it. From them the race of cicadas arose, and they have this special privilege from the Muses: from the time they are born they need no nourishment, they just sing continually without eating or drinking until they die… ."
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