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Stesichoros released being. All the substances in the world went floating up.
The red world And corresponding red breezes Went on Geryon did not
E.g., for writing abuse of Helen Stesichoros was struck blind but then he wrote for her an encomium and got his sight back.
Parallel story in Persian!
Geryon? fine he’s right here working on his autobiography . . . . No it’s a sculpture he doesn’t know how to write yet
On the cover Geryon wrote Autobiography. Inside he set down the facts. Total Facts Known About Geryon. Geryon was a monster everything about him was red. Geryon lived on an island in the Atlantic called the Red Place. Geryon’s mother was a river that runs to the sea the Red Joy River Geryon’s father was gold. Some say Geryon had six hands six feet some say wings. Geryon was red so were his strange red cattle. Herakles came one day killed Geryon got the cattle.
New Ending. All over the world the beautiful red breezes went on blowing hand in hand.
and there it was one of those moments that is the opposite of blindness.
Do you have change for a dollar? Geryon heard Geryon say.
Not touching but joined in astonishment as two cuts lie parallel in the same flesh.
What about stars? Are you going to tell me none of the stars are really there? Well some are there but some burned out ten thousand years ago. I don’t believe that. How can you not believe it, it’s a known fact. But I see them. You see memories. Have we had this conversation before?
The fruit bowl stayed there. Yes empty.
Why is grass called blades? he asked them. Isn’t it because of the clicking?
Although a monster Geryon could be charming in company.
So this is skepticism, thought Geryon. White is black. Black is white. Perhaps soon I will get some new information about red.
I am a philosopher of sandwiches, he decided. Things good on the inside.
I shall never amount to much, he remarked to the llamas. They did not look up.
