part one: Aphasia (ag) “Inability to comprehend words”
part two: Charybdis (ag) “A whirlpool off the coast of Sicily that was personified in Greek mythology as a female monster.”
part three: Charon’s Fare (ag em)
lyrics
“The whirlpool of Charybdis, where the sea forever spouted and roared and the furious waves mounting up touched the very sky.”
– Edith Hamilton, Mythology
“An Aged boatman named Charon Ferries the souls of the
dead across the [river Styx] to the farther bank where stands the
adamantine gate of Tartarus. . . Charon will receive into his
boat only the souls of those upon whose lips the passage money
was placed when they died and who were duly buried.”
– Edith Hamilton, Mythology
“Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance;
. . . poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from the music.”
– Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading
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