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The Song and the Mast
I. The Ship Nearing the Song
There are dangers that announce themselves with claws. There are others that come not as violence but as invitation. The first kind arouses vigilance. The second asks for recognition. The first strikes the body. The second asks for consent. It is the second kind that more often destroys a man.
The sea is already full of memory when the ship nears the place. Odysseus does not arrive at the Sirens innocent. He comes warned. Before the water narrows into that fatal region, before the strange meadow appears, before the voices begin their impossible work, another woman…
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