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Clytemnestra's Bind [ARC Review]
Release Date: 15th June 2023
Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Tragedy Level: 😭😭😭
Before we get into this review, here are some trigger warnings to keep in mind before reading this novel: Brutal Murders of Children (especially in the first few chapters), Violence and Rape.
My Review:
Clytemnestra’s Bind by Susan C. Wilson is a Greek Tragedy in every sense of the phrase. The novel centres on Queen Clytemnestra of Mycenae. In the Greek myths, she is Helen of Troy’s twin sister and is known for killing her husband Agamemnon upon his return from the Trojan War. This was after he had sacrificed their eldest daughter, Iphigenia to the Gods. The novel details her life long before Iphigenia’s death.
The book is split into three parts. Part 1 starts with the invasion of her kingdom and having her first husband and child brutally taken from her. Part 2 covers her subsequent marriage to Agamemnon, her relationship with her three eldest children; Iphigenia, Electra, Orestes. Part 3 covers the crux of Clytemnestra’s notoriety in the Greek myths as she plots Agamemnon’s demise after Iphigenia is sacrificed.
Susan paints a beautifully tragic portrait of Clytemnestra and her life. I kept thinking how much can one woman take before she completely snaps. Susan fully understands the genre she is working with and completely delivers. I could feel our heroine’s pain at every single turn. I had to put the book down several times to sit with it and let the devastation wash over me. Yet I appreciate how the author had done it. It was unflinching and tragic without being too gratuitous. The novel provides an excellent example of female rage that showcases how Clytemnestra gets to the point of murdering Agamemnon.
I also adored how well developed Clytemnestra is and the insights we get from her point of view. So much of her life happens to her rather than her being the driving force of it. It is admirable to see how she still pushes through and tries her best to do right by her children after having lost her first family. Her relationships with everyone from her husband to his brothers, Menelaus and Aegisthus, her sister Helen to her children are all so unique and well written. The way she interacts with everyone is just so interesting to read and was a brilliant exploration into her character.
On its own, the novel is a tragic tale of a Queen who had gone through the most unimaginable horrors one can go through, losing most of the people she had loved and having her agency taken away from her. That is what makes her taking control of her life towards the end so satisfying.
As a reiteration of an old myth, Susan C. Wilson does an excellent job of building upon the lore. The hints and foreshadowing strategically placed all throughout the story as we know what is to come was exhilarating to read with a sense of dread knowing the tragedy looming amongst the characters.
All in all, I would recommend this book for anyone looking to read a well written tragedy that covers grief in a meaningful manner and illustrates the female rage in all its glory. For Greek mythology lovers, especially those who appreciate a good Greek Tragedy, this one was definitely made for us. Picking up on the foreshadowing felt like a fun session of ‘Connect the Dots’. That being said, once again I warn everyone to tread carefully as the book has depictions of rape, violence and brutal murders. Read safely and enjoy this book everyone!
Thank you to Neem Tree Press and NetGalley for an advanced copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
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Book Review: Clytemnestra’s Bind by Susan C Wilson
With the world the way it is these days (literally, the orcas are uprising), we all need some good news. And I’m here with some for all the Greek mythology fans!
Clytemnestra’s Bind, the first book in The House of Atreus trilogy by Susan C Wilson, is a beautiful read! This first book is 290 pages and has been published by Neem Tree Press; and…
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At the beginning of Clytemnestra’s Bind by Susan C. Wilson, Queen Clytemnestra is happily married to King Tantalus of Mycenae. She has just given birth to their son, Iphitus.
Unfortunately, Agamemnon and Menelaus storm the castle in an effort to take over the throne of Mycenae. King Tantalus and the baby are killed. Agamemmnon takes Clytemnestra as his wife.
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The House of Atreus: Clytemnestra’s Bind by Susan C Wilson. From women-led publisher Neem Tree Press comes this fiery first instalment in an epic three-part Greek mythology series.
About the Author
About the Author: Susan C Wilson is a working-class author from Scotland. She has a degree in journalism and a diploma in classical studies from the Open University. By day, she works as an…
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april reading wrap up
1. binding 13, chloe walsh - THIS is my guilty pleasure.. ohhh this is like if normal people was less well written litfic and more in line with sappy trashy romance novels. BUT GOOD. oh it reminds me of like a good quotev story. which is like wattpad for emo middle schoolers
2. the prisoner’s throne, holly black - MASSIVE disappointment, but now that i think about it, idk why i was so let down. i didnt care for the three cruel prince books but i did really like stolen heir which made me excited for this. but this follows a different characters pov and was just a big downgrade from stolen heir. i wont read any more holly black going forward.
3. the boy who was raised as a dog, bruce perry, md, phd - preferred this one over the body keeps the score. i cried three separate times.
4. the salt grows heavy, cassandra khaw - cute and eerie!! save this one for october.
5. the god of endings, jacqueline holland - also cute! i dont know why i read all these spooky adjacent books in the middle of spring but i digress
6. lilith, nikki marmery - i thought id really like this but the writing style and characterizations felt too modern and tongue in cheek for the content itself. might have served better if reworked as an original story as opposed to a retelling but what do i know
7. clytemnestra, costanza casati - this is like circe x 10000000 oh madeline miller WISHES she couldve written this.. this is such a good retelling. maybe im biased because i just love the atreus family and the orestia and everything but content aside the writing was really magnificent
8. keeping 13, chloe walsh - MWAHHHHH AHHHH RAHHH GAHHHH
9. monstrilio, gerardo sámano córdova - the first three fourths were very good but the last act just lost me! another eerie sort of monster book with a maternal lens. good concept and good execution even, i just felt like the ending fell flat and getting thru it was a chore
10. shatter me, tahereh mafi - i dont know why i bother with the booktok book recommendations anymore. this was PISS POOR. and i think theres like eight of these books. oh you couldnt PAY me to read the rest.
11. butcher & blackbird, brynne weaver - EVEN WORSE
12. thirst, marina yuszczuk - if i had one quarter for every monster aligned book with themes of motherhood i read in april then i would have one whole dollar!
13. stone blind, natalie haynes - was scared because this was like my third retelling of the month and i was nervy. it couldve gone lilith bad or clytmenestra good and it was GREAT!!! im so pleased with this and all the perspectives and everything was done so well and right. everything was so lyrical and smart.
wowwww im so proud of my month!!!!!!!! :)
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Book Blurb
Queen Clytemnestra’s world shatters when Agamemnon, a rival to the throne of Mycenae, storms her palace, destroys her family and claims not only the throne but Clytemnestra herself.
Tormented by her loss, she vows to do all she can to protect the children born from her unhappy marriage to Agamemnon. But when her husband…
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This fiery tale of power, family rivalry, and a mother's burning love comes from one of Greek mythology's most reviled characters—a woman who challenged men's absolute power.
This book is perfect for readers of Greek mythology and fans of Costanza Casati’s Clytemnestra, Madeline Miller’s Circe, and Jennifer Saint’s Elektra.
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The author’s exploration of the beginning of Clytemnestra’s journey is informative and insightful, bringing a new understanding to a previously ignored topic.
We get a glimpse into her life as we witness the start of her journey with her first marriage and child and later follow along as she embarks on a new chapter with her second marriage and growing family. I am genuinely…
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TREXEL: No circumstances can you do that. Because, David—
DAVID: ♪ —Fact Corner! ♫
TREXEL: No, David, stop it!
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DAVID: So, ♪ David's Fact Corner ♫ is never happening again.
TREXEL: [crosstalk] Is David's Fact Cancelled.
DAVID: [sadly] Oh.
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TREXEL: Tell me you accept that.
DAVID: ♪ David's Fact Cancelled. ♫
TREXEL: Excellent stuff.
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DAVID: ♪ David's Flat Corner. ♫
TREXEL: If you like.
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TREXEL: [sings] ♪ What's? That? On the horizon? It's time… for sales! [David sighs] Who's? That? Man over there? It's the king of sales! And I feel that he has the power to take us on a journey, but never fails! Lalalalalala, dancing girls and dancing boys— ♫
DAVID: [crosstalk] Trexel! Trexel!
TREXEL: ♪ Dancing with their dancing toys! Because— ♫
DAVID: [crosstalk] Trexel!
TREXEL: ♪ —sales is on, and sales is high— ♫
DAVID: We don't have time for a full number!
TREXEL: ♪ —and it is time for sales-y time! And sale will win the sale-y thing, [DAVID: T-Trexel!] and the thing will swim in the lake of thing— ♫
DAVID: TREXEL!
TREXEL: ♪ And the time is happening now! ♫ [pause] SALES TIME!
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DAVID: …all kicking has to be done with golden shins!
TREXEL: Yes, yes! And you have to pay the kicking tithe!
DAVID: Yes!
TREXEL: [sings] ♪ I want to kick, pay the kicking tithe! I want to stay alive, so I pay the big mouse god the kicking tithe! So I may live! ♫
DAVID: Yes, exactly that! Right, so kicking tithe. What else is here… uh, uh, nauseous! Every time you feel nauseous that’s—
TREXEL: ♪ Pay the nauseous tithe! I want to stay alive, [David sings along] so I pay the naughting nauseous tithe— ♫ Oh, and it all just fits into the same rhyme scheme, David!
DAVID: Right. Okay, okay, right! So they want to be a mouse concubine, so, so some kind of body transmogrification tithe!
TREXEL: ♪ Body transmogrification tithe! I transmogrify to stay alive! To become a mouse! A mouse of my god, because I've got this hot mouse bod! ♫
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DAVID: Oh Board, what is going on? Wait. [hyperventilating a little] Has somebody found out about my permissions? Have I been locked out? Oh, I knew I shouldn’t have secretly recorded more editions of [singing badly] ♪ David’s… fact corner! ♫
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TREXEL: That's a coquettish hat. [sings] ♪ Oh, yeah! Coquettish man in a coquettish hat. Ooh! Where'd you get that hat? [DAVID: From-from David.] Baby! [DAVID: Well, you made it.] Got it from my imagination. Made it on this space station! ♫
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TREXEL: [sings] ♪ Frost Bees and Legalese. Who will win? The Legalese will. ♫ That—
DAVID: I hope so, otherwise we're in—
TREXEL: That's a theme tune and you can keep it.
DAVID: Okay.
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TREXEL: When you're dealing with beings from all over the universe, [DAVID: Mm-hmm.] some of them are going to eat you, David! You have to get this in your thick head! [DAVID: Oh.] [sings] ♪ Some of the clients want you dead. In the head, in the head. The clients will murder you if they can. Don't go off of the plan. If you learn these lessons three, you'll be fine and stay with me. Meeee-EEEE! Trexel who's alive. ♫ You see?
DAVID: Right.
TREXEL: They sing that to children, David, [DAVID: Okay] so I'd hope you'd understand!
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TREXEL: [sings] ♪ It's the— ♫
TREXEL and DAVID: [sings] ♪ —butter box. ♫
TREXEL: [sings] ♪ It really cuts you off from the buttery animals you want to be. Fear us, fear us, now you flee. ♫
DAVID: Okay. Uh, right.
TREXEL: [sings, kind of] ♪ Butter box! ♫
DAVID: The butter box.
TREXEL: Trademarked by Trexel Geistman.
DAVID: Okay.
TREXEL: Hog played by David 7.
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TREXEL: And I'm going, [bells jingle throughout] [sings] ♪ "meow meow meow, I'm a little kitty cat, and I'm doing something I shouldn't do. Is that milk mine? No, that milk's not mine, but I'm gonna lap it up all the same. Oh, I've been caught! My hackles are raised. I've tried to run away. No, I'm sliding on a floor! This floor is so slick, and I've hit a wall. Yes, I've hit it." ♫ And then I murder the puppet.
DAVID: What?
TREXEL: Because that's what they like, cat videos and murder.
DAVID: Okay.
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DAVID: So, go on! Take it! Take it up to your "high ground" where you're "trying" ever so hard. And I'll just stay languishing down—
TREXEL: [sings] ♪ Lucy— ♫
DAVID: And I'll just stay la—
TREXEL: [sings] ♪ Lucy, I can see— ♫
DAVID: And I'll just stay languishin—
TREXEL: [sings] ♪ You're so beautiful to me. ♫
DAVID: Okay, it's no longer about me anymore, is it?
TREXEL: [sings] ♪ Oh, Lucy! The angles we shall take,
Measurements real and fake.
Together we
Will measure the
Sweet world we have— ♫
DAVID: I thought that was it.
TREXEL: [sings] ♪ In our grasping hands.
Drawn in bonds
Such binding bands.
You and me
Luuuuu-uuuu-uuuucy! ♫
DAVID: Yeah, it also does lil' spirals.
TREXEL: I love her.
DAVID: Great.
TREXEL: I love my new graph friend, David. Thank— thank you.
[sings] ♪ Lucy, through the dewdrops we do dance.
Lucy, in the meadow we'll prance.
Lucy, take me by your corners,
Don't hold back,
I'm not a hoarder.
You're the only graph friend I have. ♫
DAVID: That's not very kind to Percy.
TREXEL: [sings] ♪ Since I lost my greatest friend,
A childhood, a special friend,
A Percy that I'll never see again. ♫
DAVID: To anyone listening, it's not the clone.
TREXEL: [sings] ♪ He is lost to me— ♫
DAVID: He cares more about the—
TREXEL: [sings] ♪ And for a long time I couldn't see— ♫
DAVID: The graph friend is more important.
TREXEL: [sings] ♪ A way out of my sorrow and despair! ♫
DAVID: I don't even know the clone's name!
TREXEL: [sings] ♪ But Lucy, you have come into my life,
Buried yourself into my heart
Like a kindly, kindly knife and we shall be
Together. ♫
DAVID: He doesn't even remember who's made it.
TREXEL: [sings] ♪ Lucy! ♫
DAVID: David made Lucy.
IMOGEN: [beep] Musical crime detected. There is no one appropriate to inform.
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[Trexel lays down a beat including snapping and scat singing]
DAVID: Darkness.
My feelings
they're hurt now.
I'm thinking
I don't know what!
I don't know where!
Where is my place
in this crazy mixed up station?
Is it with Trexel?
Is it with IMOGEN?
Who are the Board?
Who is Hartro?
There are her feet.
Why are her feet?
Keep your feet
to yourself.
Leave me alone!
Ah— no, I'm done. No, I can't go there.
TREXEL: [snaps fingers] I'm applauding. I'm doing jazz applause, David.
DAVID: Okay. Right, well… thank— thank you, I suppose.
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DAVID: Plea— Trexel!
TREXEL: [sing-songy] Trexel's nipple dance.
DAVID: Put them away!
TREXEL: Okay. Okay. [puts shirt back down]
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TREXEL: [sings] ♪ Look out! It's TD-dog. TD stands for "Trexel dominates". He's on the streets. He's commanding respect. Don't look at him 'cause he will flex because Trexel's the one that's allowed to be swole. David stop exercising, it hurts your soul. You use your mind. I also use my mind but my mind has muscles on the end of my arms. ♫
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TREXEL: [sings] ♪ I partake of a tune or two in my spare time. Da da la da la da da. Tunes arrive! I want to make a massive rhyme. Di di li di li di da. Who can say— ♫
CLYTEMNESTRA: [claps] Oh, very good!
TREXEL: [sings] ♪ —when the song will end? Not now yet [CLYTEMNESTRA: Oh!] or even later! It goes on even though it grows later— ♫
DAVID: Trexel, we have about 8 minutes of the shift left.
TREXEL: ♪ —in the day. In the day! In the day! [at the top of his lungs] In the day! ♫
CLYTEMNESTRA: Oh.
DAVID: Why is it that whenever you bring people into a room singing happens?
TREXEL: Because I have a tune in the heart and a song in the mind.
DAVID: Eugh.
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DAVID: [starts rage singing] ♪ Sadness. Sadness. Sadness and anger. Anger and rage! [TREXEL: Okay. Okay.] Anger and rage and everything here. ♫
CLYTEMNESTRA: Oh, dear.
TREXEL: Okay. Um—
DAVID: ♪ Kill! Kill! Destroy! [becomes incomprehensible and devolves into rage noises] ♫
TREXEL: Um! Clytemnestra, um...
CLYTEMNESTRA: Um, wow. Okay. Okay, I think that's enough. Lovely. [David begins to calm down but still breaths angrily] Very beautiful performance. Thank you very much.
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DAVID: Go sing.
TREXEL: Is it my turn?
CLYTEMNESTRA: Your turn— Yes, it's your turn, Trexel.
TREXEL: Okay. [sings] ♪ Everybody's having a nice little time. But then when they stop and have time to reflect they look at a wall and realise that they have no friends [starts getting upset] and nobody loves them! Sadness and sadness and sadness and anger! And sadness and sadness and sadness and woe! ♫
TREXEL and CLYTEMNESTRA: [harmonising] ♪ Sadness and sadness and sadness and anger! And— ♫
TREXEL: [sings] ♪ Sadness and sadness! Where do I go? ♫
CLYTEMNESTRA: [sings] ♪ Where does he go? ♫
TREXEL: [sings] ♪ Oh no! ♫
CLYTEMNESTRA: [sings] ♪ Oh! ♫
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DAVID: Isn't Bathin one of our direct competitor— Why would we have an award specifically about, about Bath—
TREXEL: Customer competitive, David. Locked in a dance as old as time itself.
DAVID: So, Stellar Firma—
TREXEL: [sings] ♪ I hate you. I love you. Hold my hand and turn away. Don't look in my eyes! But don't look away from me! I feel your heart beating in your chest. ♫
DAVID: Hey Trexel.
TREXEL: [sings] ♪ I grab your heart and crush the life out of it! ♫
DAVID: You're dancing with Bathin.
TREXEL: Ooh! Get off me! Get off me! [stammers] I don't— I don't— I didn't want it! I didn't like it! I didn't like it. I didn't like it.
HARTRO: But that is what—
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DAVID: [footsteps approaching] …in Sales but—
[door swooshes open]
TREXEL: [sings] ♪ A new dawn! [David yelps] A new dawn has come to pass! ♫
DAVID: Trexel, we need to talk.
TREXEL: [sings] ♪ The mistakes of old are now cast— ♫
DAVID: Trexel, we need to—
TREXEL: [sings] ♪ —aside to reveal a brand new future shining bright in the sky! Trexel! ♫
DAVID: Needs to listen to me.
TREXEL: [sings] ♪ Trexel— ♫
DAVID: Really needs to listen to me.
TREXEL: [sings] ♪ —has arrived-dah! ♫ [DAVID: Yes.] Cheering! Cheering! Cheering!
DAVID: Uh, no. No. No cheering. Look, Tr-Trexel—
TREXEL: Cheering.
DAVID: Trexel, we need to talk!
TREXEL: Fireworks!
DAVID: We need to pro— No, Trexel.
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TREXEL: [taunts] Weatherboy! Ah ha ha ha ha! Weatherboy! What's that Weatherboy? Testing gases? [sings] ♪ Weatherboy, Weatherboy, weather weather Weatherboy! Weatherboy, Weatherboy, weather Weatherboy. Who's that Weatherboy? It is you. What's the Weatherboy? Tell me true. Is it raining? Is it shining? Tell me, Weatherboy, am I pining for the time when the Weatherboy was here? Now the Weatherboy is here it's clear, there's a Weatherboy, Weatherboy, Weatherboy! The boy of weather is you! Ha! ♫
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TREXEL: [sings] ♪ Who's there I see across the sea? It's a Weatherboy, a Weatherboy, a Weatherboy coming to me! ♫
DAVID: It's actually Welby Weatherby.
TREXEL: [sings] ♪ Tell me what the weather is. Weatherboy, tell me true [DAVID: Weatherby.] for the weather, weather, weather, weather is something you do! ♫
DAVID: So that— yeah, something that Wel-Welby Weatherby does. Yes.
TREXEL: [sings] ♪ He's a Weatherboy! ♫
DAVID: Ok— no. Weatherby.
TREXEL: [sings] ♪ He's a Weatherboy! ♫
DAVID: Weather— Weatherby.
TREXEL: [sings] ♪ Play with your weather toys! ♫
DAVID: Weather-tee.
TREXEL: [sulking] Well, now you've ruined it.
DAVID: Good. Anyway—
TREXEL: You've ruined the meter.
DAVID: Okay. Does that mean we can— Okay.
TREXEL: I suppose so. I mean, [DAVID: Right.] the-the-the meters ruined now so just, just move on. I don't care.
DAVID: Okay. No, that's fine. So, I just have to ruin meters and that will just— Okay, that's—
TREXEL: No, don't learn that! Don't— I don't want you to learn that! That will ruin all my fun!
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DAVID: [sings] ♪ Welby Weatherboy, you have come with your boys to control the weather. Here you go. Lovely love— ♫
TREXEL: [sings] ♪ Look, you control the flow, the flow of the weather through all the sky. Look outside, it's time for guys! Guys from, from— ♫
DAVID: [changing the meter] ♪ Guys from thathn. Guys to time. Guys to time with thum-some-thum-thum. [continues singing gibberish] Some tha blu blah ba-be-dap-ba! Bo whap ba ba ba boo! ♫ End of the song.
TREXEL: [grumbles] I see. They call him David 7, [DAVID: Hmm?] meter ruiner.
IMOGEN: [beep] Or ear saver depending on how you look at it.
DAVID: Mm.
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TREXEL: [singing] ♪ Weatherboy! How are you doing? Weatherboy, [crosstalk] it looks like clouds are looming! It looks like— ♫
DAVID: [crosstalk, singing a different meter from Trexel] ♪ It's Weatherboy. Weatherboy. It, it is Weather— It is Weatherboy. It is— ♫
TREXEL: [yells] I will hurt you, David!
DAVID: What? No. Mm?
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TREXEL: [sings] ♪ But look outside, what can you see? The Weatherboy is here to decree what the Weatherby, the Weatherby, the weather will be! Oh! ♫
DAVID: [sighs] Right.
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TREXEL: [sings] ♪ Ooh! Ooh! Enjoying the rain. I'm an Executive, an Executive brain. [starts scat singing] ♫
DAVID: [talking over Trexel's singing] Okay, well I'm just gonna ma— Okay. Maybe for now we'll just table the thinking caps. Well just— I'm gonna take my thinking cap off, okay? Like, here it goes. Ooh!
TREXEL: ♪ —for you! ♫ Here you go.
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TREXEL: [echoing, sings] ♪ King of the vents is me, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! ♫
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TREXEL: Ha ha! [sings] ♪ I get to go somewhere you don't get to go! I get to go to the nose-mouth-butt. [ENOLA: Yeah.] Nose-mouth-butt for me, me, me. ♫
ENOLA: Have a sticky leaflet, Trexel.
TREXEL: [sings] ♪ Sticky leaflet, sticky leaflet for me! Take it to the mouth-butt-n— ♫ [muffled as Enola sticks the leaflet in Trexel's mouth]
ENOLA: Get in! Yes! Yes, good.
DAVID: Oh! Oh, that worked. Ah, nice one!
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DAVID: Okay. Yes, Trexel. It turns out that you continue to do your—
TREXEL: [sings] ♪ When will The Face know me? [David sighs] When will Gonk feel the reach of my hand? When will Tracer P. Zazz Cage know that I am the great one with the great plan? Doug Whimperton. Oh, Doug Whimperton. Oh, Doug Whimperton should know my name! ♫
DAVID: I thought we didn't like Doug Whimperton.
TREXEL: [sings] ♪ Welby Weatherby shall know my fame. ♫
DAVID: Right.
TREXEL: But no.
DAVID: Yeah, but, but no!
TREXEL: All lost.
[short version of the outro theme]
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The Golden Verses of Pythagoras
by Pythagoras
1. First worship the Immortal Gods, as they are established and ordained by the Law.
2. Reverence the Oath, and next the Heroes, full of goodness and light.
3. Honour likewise the Terrestrial Daemons by rendering them the worship lawfully due to them.
4. Honour likewise your parents, and those most nearly related to you.
5. Of all the rest of mankind, make him your friend who distinguishes himself by his virtue.
6. Always give ear to his mild exhortations, and take example from his virtuous and useful actions.
7. Avoid as much as possible hating your friend for a slight fault.
8. Power is a near neighbour to necessity.
9. Know that all these things are just as what I have told you; and accustom yourself to overcome and vanquish these passions:--
10. First gluttony, sloth, sensuality, and anger.
11. Do nothing evil, neither in the presence of others, nor privately;
12. But above all things respect yourself.
13. In the next place, observe justice in your actions and in your words.
14. And do not accustom yourself to behave yourself in any thing without rule, and without reason.
15. But always make this reflection, that it is ordained by destiny that all men shall die.
16. And that the goods of fortune are uncertain; and that just as they may be acquired, they may likewise be lost.
17. Concerning all the calamities that men suffer by divine fortune,
18. Support your lot with patience, it is what it may be, and never complain at it.
19. But endeavour what you can to remedy it.
20. And consider that fate does not send the greatest portion of these misfortunes to good men.
21. There are many sorts of reasonings among men, good and bad;
22. Do not admire them too easily, nor reject them.
23. But if falsehoods are advanced, hear them with mildness, and arm yourself with patience.
24. Observe well, on every occasion, what I am going to tell you:--
25. Do not let any man either by his words, or by his deeds, ever seduce you.
26. Nor lure you to say or to do what is not profitable for yourself.
27. Consult and deliberate before you act, that you may not commit foolish actions.
28. For it is the part of a miserable man to speak and to act without reflection.
29. But do the thing which will not afflict you afterwards, nor oblige you to repentance.
30. Never do anything which you do not understand.
31. But learn all you ought to know, and by that means you will lead a very pleasant life.
32. in no way neglect the health of your body;
33. But give it drink and meat in due measure, and also the exercise of which it needs.
34. Now by measure I mean what will not discomfort you.
35. Accustom yourself to a way of living that is neat and decent without luxury.
36. Avoid all things that will occasion envy.
37. And do not be prodigal out of season, like someone who does not know what is decent and honourable.
38. Neither be covetous nor stingy; a due measure is excellent in these things.
39. Only do the things that cannot hurt you, and deliberate before you do them.
40. Never allow sleep to close your eyelids, after you went to bed,
41. Until you have examined all your actions of the day by your reason.
42. In what have I done wrong? What have I done? What have I omitted that I ought to have done?
43. If in this examination you find that you have done wrong, reprove yourself severely for it;
44. And if you have done any good, rejoice.
45. Practise thoroughly all these things; meditate on them well; you ought to love them with all your heart.
46. It is those that will put you in the way of divine virtue.
47. I swear it by he who has transmitted into our souls the Sacred Quaternion, the source of nature, whose cause is eternal.
48. But never begin to set your hand to any work, until you have first prayed the gods to accomplish what you are going to begin.
49. When you have made this habit familiar to you,
50. You will know the constitution of the Immortal Gods and of men.
51. Even how far the different beings extend, and what contains and binds them together.
52. You shall likewise know that according to Law, the nature of this universe is in all things alike,
53. So that you shall not hope what you ought not to hope; and nothing in this world shall be hidden from you.
54. You will likewise know, that men draw upon themselves their own misfortunes voluntarily, and of their own free choice.
55. Unhappy they are! They neither see nor understand that their good is near them.
56. Few know how to deliver themselves out of their misfortunes.
57. Such is the fate that blinds humankind, and takes away his senses.
58. Like huge cylinders they roll back and forth, and always oppressed with innumerable ills.
59. For fatal strife, natural, pursues them everywhere, tossing them up and down; nor do they perceive it.
60. Instead of provoking and stirring it up, they ought to avoid it by yielding.
61. Oh! Jupiter, our Father! If you would deliver men from all the evils that oppress them,
62. Show them of what daemon they make use.
63. But take courage; the race of humans is divine.
64. Sacred nature reveals to them the most hidden mysteries.
65. If she impart to you her secrets, you will easily perform all the things which I have ordained thee.
66. And by the healing of your soul, you wilt deliver it from all evils, from all afflictions.
67. But you should abstain from the meats, which we have forbidden in the purifications and in the deliverance of the soul;
68. Make a just distinction of them, and examine all things well.
69. Leave yourself always to be guided and directed by the understanding that comes from above, and that ought to hold the reins.
70. And when, after having deprived yourself of your mortal body, you arrived at the most pure Aither,
71. You shall be a God, immortal, incorruptible, and Death shall have no more dominion over you.
John Singer Sargent 1921 Orestes Pursued by the Furies, oil on canvas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
note: In The Iliad, the king of Argos, Agamemnon, sacrifices his daughter Iphigenia to the Gods to assure good sailing weather to Troy. In Agamemnon, the first play of Aeschylus's Oresteia trilogy, Agamemnon is murdered by his wife, Clytemnestra, and her lover, Aegisthus as revenge for sacrificing Iphigenia. In The Libation Bearers, the second play of the Orestia, Agamemnon's son Orestes returns home to take revenge on his mother for murdering his father.
Orestes ultimately does murder his mother, and afterward is tormented by The Furies, beings who personify the anger of the dead
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the way the cloths helen and penelope weave in the iliad and the odyssey serve to bind them to their husbands’ family and the way clytemnestra uses cloth to sever herself from hers...
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Development Update - Final Project Platformer Game
Odysseus Homeward Bound
The following is the narrative/dialogue that will be used for Odysseus Homeward Bound. As the main programmer in this game, I have started to implement the text using Dialogue Tree in GDevelop.
Narrative Breakdown
Opening Scene.
Scene Information: Underworld background scene. Text in text box at base of scene.
Actions: Click to proceed.
Dialogue: Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious man who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of troy.
Underworld Scenes.
Scene information: Odysseus goes to the underworld. Underworld background scene. Odysseus image above text box.
Odysseus Dialogue: “I have finally arrived, here at the house of Hades. I call upon Hades and Persephone, and the innumerable spirits of the underworld, please accept these libations of milk, honey and wine. Please also accept these two sheep and drink deep of their blood.”
Scene dialogue: As Odysseus offers the libations ghosts appear before him and he makes a second plea.
Odysseus Dialogue: “O Teiresias, most notable of prophets, please come forth and answer me.”
Scene Information: Teiresias appears before Odysseus. Image located above text box, on opposite side of Odysseus.
Teiresias Dialogue: “Odysseus, noble son of Laertes, why have you come here, to this land beyond the light?”
Odysseus Dialogue: “I seek your help Teiresias, I wish to return home to Ithaca but the Gods themselves are against me…”
Teiresias Dialogue: “Tis not all the Gods, Pallas Athene still toils for you, yet Lord Poseidon you must be wary of, for you killed his son, the cyclops Polyphemus. Take heed to what I say next for it will come to pass… You have a long way to go, for you must traverse the seas yet further and cross the lands of the sun-cattle. Be warned though, wily Odysseus, do not let your greed blind you for it will only bring misfortune… I cannot tell you more for my time has come to depart, however deep in these harrowed halls there is a parchment with the information you need and heroes to guide you… Go now…”
[[Odysseus Dialogue: “Farewell shade, thank you for answering my call. I guess there is no other choice, I must traverse the halls of Hades.”]]
Platform Scene 1.
Scene Information: Platformer instance 1 begins. Goal – seek out the parchment of Teiresias. Optional Goal – seek out the spirits of the heroes Achilles, Hercules, and Agamemnon.
Hercules Scene.
Scene Information: Odysseus collects Hercules’ coin. Narrative dialogue event triggered. Click through action.
Hercules Dialogue: “Odysseus, wiliest of the Achaeans… I see you have wandered here as I once did in my days serving the Gods.”
Odysseus Dialogue: “The Gods and Lord Poseidon mock me… Only Lady Athena stands by my side, helping me bear the burden of their trials.”
Hercules Dialogue: “The Gods are as fickle as ever; I was the son of Zeus and they still heaped 12 labours upon me. You cannot escape them, only fulfil their wishes, and hope that in death you are granted respite. Go now, before death nips at your heels…”
Achilles Scene.
Scene Information: Odysseus collects Achilles’ coin. Narrative dialogue event triggered. Click through action.
Achilles Dialogue: “Hail, Odysseus, it is good to see you again, but what are you doing here, to dare cross the threshold of death…”
Odysseus Dialogue: “I came seeking the aid of Teiresias and still I search for his remaining prophecy.”
Achilles Dialogue: “I see… I cannot tell you its whereabouts but do not tarry here. I may be a prince among shades, granted a place in Elysium, but I would rather be a beggar above with nothing to my name. Death is not favourable and it will find you here if you are not swift.”
Odysseus Dialogue: “Achilles, chief amongst the Achaeans, do not mourn your place here for you are celebrated above, the greatest warrior that ever was and ever will be… I will be as swift as I can.”
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Agamemnon Scene.
Scene Information: Odysseus collects Agamemnon’s coin. Narrative dialogue event triggered. Click through action.
Odysseus Dialogue: “Agamemnon? How did you come to the house of Hades? You were yet alive when last I departed the cursed shores of Troy.”
Agamemnon Dialogue: “Noble Odysseus, it was by neither the seas nor my enemies but my own wicked wife, Clytemnestra and her treacherous lover Aegisthus. I was slaughtered in my own home upon the premise of hospitality. A most disgraceful and traitorous act.”
Odysseus Dialogue: “Such cruelty! Zeus has ever hated the house of Atreus but to think such misfortune would befall you… I will mourn you and offer libations upon my return home.”
Agamemnon Dialogue: “Thank you Odysseus, you have ever been loyal. Now go, this place is not for the living and your time has not yet come.”
Parchment Scene.
Scene Information: Odysseus finds the parchment of Teiresias. Narrative dialogue event triggered. Click through action.
Parchment Dialogue: “Noble Odysseus… Your next foes are both beautiful and deadly, their lavish songs lead only to death. You would be wise to cover your ears as they will not serve you. Linger no longer in this place for the dead are vengeful and envious of the living. They will trap you ‘ere long.”
Escape Scene.
Scene information: Background change to open sea/siren instance background.
Scene Dialogue: Successfully escaping the house of Hades, Odysseus makes his way to his crew and their boat. Parchment in hand and the prophecy of Teiresias to guide them Odysseus and his crew set forth to the dangerous waters of the Sirens.
Scene Dialogue: Having heard however of the sirens prophetic abilities, Odysseus makes the choice to listen to their songs and instructs his crew to bind him to the mast. Ever wily Odysseus however breaks free of his bonds and ventures into the lair of their sirens, called forth by their false promises…
Platform Scene 2.
Scene information: Platformer instance 2 begins. Goal – escape the lair of the sirens unharmed and return to the crew.
Scene information: Escape portal leads to final boss scene.
Boss Scene.
Scene information: Boss platform area. Goal – defeat the siren matriarch and return to the crew. Siren image above dialogue box.
Siren Dialogue: “You, Odysseus, who has murdered my sisters, I will not let you escape our lair. You will be ours to keep, driven mad by our songs and the futures you will never have! Now die, hero.”
Scene information: Boss encounter begins.
Closing Scene.
Scene Information: Background of sea and boat.
Odysseus Dialogue: “My crew I have returned. I have learned what we face next, the might Charybdis and Scylla. Ever our journey continues on but home will be ours one day…”
End Scene.
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