Chekhov's Mistress
Anne Carson’s Zeus Bits
by Bud Parr
.html” target=”_blank”>Zeus Bits‘ in the previous London Review of Books (subscription req.) is entertaining. I happen to be reading Decreation right now so I’m on Anne Carson Watch.
[ZEUS OUTLINES HIS ECONOMIC THEORY (LAYMAN’S TERMS)]
Rhyme war with whore.
Say you have $84 in your pocket.
She’ll cost you $84.
Say you have $84 billion in your pocket.
Cost you $84 billion.
Free trade.
and this…
[ZEUS PONDERS HIS OWN AFTERLIFE]
Aesthetics of a glass coffin indisputable.
Models (Cinderella, Alexander, Lenin) tricky.
How to pitch this?
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