Someone has left a spear stuck in the sand

[sovay]

Oh, hell! Christopher Logue. And the sixth volume of War Music still unfinished.

Achilles' face
Is like a chalkpit fringed with roaring wheat.
His brain says: "Kill him. Let the Greeks sail home."
His thigh steels flex.

I am totally watching him as Swinburne in Ken Russell's Dante's Inferno (1967).

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[sovay]

I wish I'd heard of War Music before. The excerpts are brilliant.

I recommend it very highly. The only other mode of art I've seen apply that combination of time-slip, retelling, and defamiliarization to classical narrative is plays.