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Cassandra
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381 printed pages
- Copyright owner
- Bookwire
- Original publication
- 2013
- Publication year
- 2013
- Publisher
- Daunt Books
Quotes
- Ivana Melgozahas quoted3 months ago
It was for his sake, whom I hated, and for the sake of my father, whom I loved, that I had avoided screaming their state secret out loud. There was a grain of calculation in my self-renunciation. Eumelos saw through me. My father did not. - Ivana Melgozahas quoted7 hours agoThe visions which overwhelm her no longer have anything to do with the ritual decrees of her oracle. She ‘sees’ the future because she has the courage to see things as they really are in the present.
- Ivana Melgozahas quoted4 days agoThe second of the wild animals behind the wire fence has been shot; it is bleeding from a shoulder wound, looks at us reproachfully, sadly, and at the same time implacably. ‘Did you shoot at it?’ I ask H. ‘Naturally,’ he says, ‘what else could one do?’ He has taken a hunting rifle that was hanging on a wall in the kitchen. But he could not shoot again, he says. The animal does not look as if it was about to die of this wound. It occurs to us that the animals might have escaped from a passing circus. It is too late to make inquiries. We cannot possibly live with them. We cannot kill them, either. They will not leave our kitchen voluntarily. We stand there, eye to eye with the mute wild beasts, and know: it is a hopeless situation.
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