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).

Comments

[gwynnega]

I'd forgotten that it was Logue who wrote the screenplay for Russell's marvelous Savage Messiah.

I haven't read War Music, but I clearly must!

[sovay]

I haven't read War Music, but I clearly must!

Yes. It's brilliant.