orpheus but he's sisyphus
Ovid’s The Story of Orpheus and Eurydice (tr. Rolfe Humphries) / Spirited Away dir. Hayao Miyazaki / @mag200 / Jenny Diski, “Housewife” / Franz Wright, God's Silence / Adrianne Kalfopoulou, “Poem in Pieces, a Log” / Jon Ware, I am in Eskew / Kazimierz Wierzyński, “A Word of Orphists” (tr. Czeslaw Milosz) / @prisonhannibal / Aeschylus, The Oresteia / Ocean Vuong, Eurydice
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image 1: a quote from Ovid that reads: "And Orpheus received her, but one term was set: he must not, till he passed Avernus, turn back his gaze, or the gift would be in vain."
image 2: excerpt from the script of the film Spirited Away that reads: "Haku: But I can't go any farther. Just go back the way you came, you'll be fine. [highlighted] But you have to promise not to look back, not until you've passed through the tunnel."
image 3: a drawing, labeled in all-caps handwriting "a venn diagram of love vs. grief:". the drawing is a single circle.
image 4: an excerpt, highlighted and italicized, from Jenny Diski that reads: "People don't understand about repetition, do they? How it is at the heart (thump, thump, thump) of obsession; at the erotic centre (drip, drip, drip) of desire. You do, of course. Repetition is insatiability spelt sideways."
image 5: a quote from Franz Wright reading, "And let me ask you this: the dead, where aren't they?"
image 6: a quote from Adrianne Kalfopoulou in red text, reading, "Grief will keep you reaching back / for what is not there"
image 7: an excerpt from Jon Ware that reads, "Here's my question. If the ghost wants nothing more than to be witnessed, why would it appear behind you, not in front of you? The only answer I can think of is this: [underlined] it appears behind you because it already knows, to an absolute certainty, that you will have no choice but to look back."
image 8: a quote from Kazimierz Wierzyński that reads: "I understood the true fate of Orpheus, that [highlighted] love is a constant terror of loss."
image 9: a screenshot of a tumblr ask from an anonymous user who says, "What's the point?" user prisonhannibal responds, "of what? it's love though".
image 10: two lines from aeschylus reading, "Orestes: This was always going to happen. She's been dead since the beginning."
image 11: an excerpt from Ocean Vuong that reads, "Your absence has gone through me // Like thread through a needle. / Everything I do is stitched with its color."
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Sorry about your son. We meant no harm. Yeah we only hurt him to disarm him. Yeah, no, we took no pleasure in his pain. We only wanted to escape. So. Yeaah.
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Epic: The Musical
Act 1
- Troy saga (5 songs)
• The Horse and the Infant
• Just a man
• Full speed a head
• Open arms
• Warriors of the mind
- Cyclops saga (4 songs)
• Polyphemus
• Survive
• Remember them
• My goodbye
- Ocean Saga (4 songs)
• Storm
• Luck runs out
• Keep your friends close
• Ruthlessness
- Circe saga (4 songs)
• Puppeteer
• Wouldn’t you like
• Done for
• There are other ways
- Underworld saga (3 songs)
• The underworld
• No longer you
• Monster
Act 2
- Thunder saga (5 songs)
• ?
• ?
• Scylla
• Mutiny
• Thunder Bringer
- Wisdom saga (5 songs)
• Legendary
• Little wolf
• We’ll be fine
• Love in paradise
• God games
- Vengeance saga (5 songs)
• Not sorry for loving you
• Dangerous
• Charybdis
• Get in the water
• Six hundred strike
- Ithaca saga (5 songs)
• The Challenge
• Hold him down
• King
• I can’t help but wonder
• Would you fall in love with me again
This is the list of songs for Epic!! Jorge Herrans, the song writer, showed this a while back on tiktok.
Edit: Going by the comments on TikTok, Your light was scrapped, kinda sad tho that was the song I first heard on Jorge’s tiktok
Edit: Songs 39 & 40, Royal wisdom burst and Olive tree, has been changed.
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