From: Caroline@ardgrain.wintermute.co.uk (Caroline Ashbee)
Subject: The shower of gold
Keywords: water sexless hist
X-Moderator-Review: 8: I wish I could say I understand what she's doing here...
X-Ava-Review: 8: _Rashomon_ meets Greek myth. But wasn't Athene Zeus' daughter...
The shower of gold: how she saw it, how he saw it, how I saw it.
Caroline Ashbee
Danae: One night in summer, sultry, humid, uncovered for coolness; but it made no difference, lying sweating on my bed, too hot to go to sleep, fitful, turning, petulant and all the hotter for being too hot to go to sleep, and something happened. Glinting in moonlight as they fell, the hot coins landed in my lap. I tried to catch them but somehow, how I couldn't see, they slipped between my fingers and I could not hold them. The molten yellow drops caught the lamplight as they fell splashing, steaming--- Steaming?---on my nakedness. This is what Zeus had meant? What could I do but lie beneath the shower of gold? And I submitted for the love we ought to bear the Gods, and sometimes even do, and in obedience to the king, I made the passive sacrifice, sharp, painful in its way, but short, and physically harmless.
Zeus: This is not the act of a husband with his wife, not for sharing with the austere and nobly frigid Athene. Coupling with her for duty's sake and reproduction made the heart beat faster but did not find faintness after fury. Also my duty to Athene forbids simple adulterous coupling, but does not, somehow, forbid some other intimacy, difficult to achieve in the circumstance of passion, achieved by the will with a sense of relief, but with no sense of satisfaction, without a quenching of the thirst in the desert, without a satiation of hunger in the famine, denying the sense of culmination; and this is why, flung into the air, it falls from a high arc in drops of gold. This is infidelity without infidelity. Infidelity of the mind but not the body. This is the exercise of the will.
Acrisius: All I saw was a pervert degrading my daughter. I knew that I should not have peeped, and, sickened and shocked, I was repaid for this misdeed by seeing her asprawl beneath a shower of piss.
Caroline
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