Monthly Archives: March 2010

Chapter 4, section 1: Dionysos in Paradise, Nova Scotia

“The long and winding road, ba-dum-pum, takes me ba-ack to your door!” Since getting off highway 101 (hardly worth calling a highway), Dionysos drove with the window down, breathing in the blessed salt air and letting the Beatles have their way with him.
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Chapter 3, section 6: who am I again?

“Let’s go get a drink sweetheart.” Aphrodite kept her voice cheerful, but her brow was knit. Persephone felt the pressure of Aphrodite’s hand and saw that she was being propelled down a wide set of stone steps, across a stone platform and down another set of steps to a squat building. She couldn’t hear, and it [...]
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Chapter 3, section 5: Corcovado

“How magnificent... soft the water sparkles in the sunshine... tiny ribbons of beach... the moon must be beautiful from here... look how many islands there are!”
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Chapter 3, section 4: hanging up on Mother Nature

Demeter brought up the possible family gathering in Montréal again. No matter how unlikely the event, it was a distasteful topic, given that the gathering’s purpose was to raise her husband from the dead.
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CHAPTER 3, section 3: on the phone with Mother Nature

Some humans obviously enjoyed living like gods. In fact, some obviously lived better than gods. Their penthouse suite at the Copacabana Palace was more elaborately appointed than the living quarters on Mount Olympos.
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CHAPTER 3, section 2: Morro do leme

Experience had made everyone richer. No less eccentric or unmanageable, but more interesting, and more tolerant.
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