(text-style: "fidget")[##daimonic]
[[play->poem]](enchant: ?passage, via (box:"=XXX==",35)+(align:"=><="))[Dionysos does not
(after: time + 2s, (cond: visits > 0, 200ms, 0))[=explain or regret
(after: time + 2s, (cond: visits > 0, 200ms, 0))[=anything. He is
(after: time + 2s, (cond: visits > 0, 200ms, 0))[=pleased
(after: time + 2s, (cond: visits > 0, 200ms, 0))[=if he can cause you to perform,
(after: time + 2s, (cond: visits > 0, 200ms, 0))[=despite your plan,
(after: time + 2s, (cond: visits > 0, 200ms, 0))[=despite your politics,
(after: time + 2s, (cond: visits > 0, 200ms, 0))[=despite your neuroses,
(after: time + 2s, (cond: visits > 0, 200ms, 0))[=despite even your Dionysian theories of self,
(after: time + 2s, (cond: visits > 0, 200ms, 0))[=something quite previous,
(after: time + 2s, (cond: visits > 0, 200ms, 0))[=the desire
(after: time + 2s, (cond: visits > 0, 200ms, 0))[=before the desire,
(after: time + 2s, (cond: visits > 0, 200ms, 0))[=the lick of beginning to know you don’t know.
(after: time + 2s, (cond: visits > 0, 200ms, 0))[=If life is a stage,
(after: time + 2s, (cond: visits > 0, 200ms, 0))[=that is the show.
(after: time + 2s, (cond: visits > 0, 200ms, 0))[=Exit Dionysos.
(after: time + 3s, (cond: visits > 0, 200ms, 0))[=anne carson.
[[next->1]]]
you've returned home after a long time.
they believe you're just a boy, your mother was a liar.
they believe you're not the child of a god
or a god yourself
(click: "mother")[//the tomb of your mother
thunderstruck by your father//]
they say your sisterhood is fake
let the madness prove them wrong
[[next->2]](enchant: ?passage's chars, via (transition:"flicker"))
(enchant: ?link, (text-colour: #983de3)+(hover-style:(text-color:#f74040)))pentheus, your cousin, grandson of kadmos, calls you a liar and [ties you up]<magic|(click: ?magic)[(replace: ?magic)[ties up a bull as you watch.]]
agave, your aunt, is part of your sisterhood
her and others draw wine (click: "wine")[from the ground] and water (click: "water")[from rocks] and blood (click: "blood")[from cattle] with their bare hands
you're proud of them.
[[next->3]]
pentheus wants to kill your sisterhood, your maenads, no matter what
your worship, you see, is a threat to him
so you [help him]<curse| (click: ?curse)[=(replace: ?curse)[punish him]
you tell him [you'll help him sneak by]<trans| (click: ?trans)[=(replace: ?trans)[he has to disguise himself as a woman]
[[but...]]oh, how he is happy
the long flowing hair (click: "hair")[like yours], the beautiful dress (click: "dress")[like yours]
so focused on trying to become a "convincing" sister
you recognize that joy
(click: "joy")[the same joy as when you left home and your fellow gods accepted you]
(click: "accepted")[the same joy as when your sisters dressed you up]
perhaps you'd judged him too quickly
[[however...]]he insulted you to your face
called you a daimon, wanted to sell your sisters into slavery
his own mother
(t8n-arrive: "blur")[[his own mother]]
(click:"daimon")[a spirit, an embodiment, a //minor// deity of an abstract concept]he could not escape her sights
agave, [happy]<madness|(click: ?madness)[(replace: ?madness)[mad from your wine]] among the sisters, spots him first
she recognizes him as a man (click: "man")[=or as much of a man as he is playing the role of a girl so joyfully-
(align:"=><=")+(box:"=X==")[(after: time + 0.5s, (cond: visits > 0, 200ms, 0))[=//Into the throat
(after: time + 0.5s, (cond: visits > 0, 200ms, 0))[=of
(after: time + 0.5s, (cond: visits > 0, 200ms, 0))[=the
(after: time + 0.5s, (cond: visits > 0, 200ms, 0))[=ungodly
(after: time + 0.5s, (cond: visits > 0, 200ms, 0))[=unlawful
(after: time + 0.5s, (cond: visits > 0, 200ms, 0))[=unrighteous
(after: time + 0.5s, (cond: visits > 0, 200ms, 0))[=earthborn
(after: time + 0.5s, (cond: visits > 0, 200ms, 0))[=son
(after: time + 0.5s, (cond: visits > 0, 200ms, 0))[=of Echion
(after: time + 0.5s, (cond: visits > 0, 200ms, 0))[=let justice
(t8n-arrive: "blur")[[sink her sword]]//]you reveal his hiding place, and you don't regret it
(click: ?page)[== not even when his limbs get torn out by his own blood
(click: ?page)[== not even when they play with his bloodied corpse, scattering his parts everywhere
(click: ?page)[== not even when his mother holds his decapitated head
(click: ?page)[== and displays it proudly as a hunting trophy
(click: ?page)[== as if it's a little lion's head
(t8n-arrive: "blur")+(transition-time: 3s)[[and then she sobers up]]curse your grandfather, for caring for his daughters
your mother is the only good thing he's ever made (click: "made")[=
pentheus' death isn't a tragedy
he had it coming
his hubris brought down the house of kadmos
//[[they called me daimonic]]//Dionysos, hear our prayer. We did wrong.
[You’ve learned too late. Far too late.]<bac|(click: ?bac)[=
Yes. Yes. But your retaliation is too much.
[I am a god and you insulted me!]<bac2|(click: ?bac2)[=
Gods should not resemble humans in their [[anger->thanks]].inspired by euripides' bakkhai, translated by anne carson
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