Salmacis

Oh, you'll also note that, at the last minute, as I was laying out the issue, I changed the title of the new story from "The Boon of Salmacis" to "I Am the Abyss and I Am the Light," after a favorite painting by Charles Sims.

No Sleep Demons greygirlbeast 2008

I've already incorporated a great deal of Ovid's Metamorphoses — — the story of Salmacis and Hermaphroditus from the fourth book.

"To be an actor, you have to be a child." asakiyume 2008

I started off by reading over "Metamorphosis C," which has been retitled "The Boon of Salmacis."

"Seven thousand years to sleep away the pain." readingthedark 2008

Salmacis would not be seen of Hermaphroditus, till she had spruced up herself first,

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Already bearing the stitched together names of his famously libidinal parents Hermes and Aphrodite, "Hermaphroditus," at fifteen years old, has no interest in awakening to sexual desire: the plot turns on his refusal of the nymph Salmacis, whose pool

Shelley's Pod People 2005

And yet — like Ovid's Hermaphroditus, whose flaunted unavailability incites the nymph Salmacis, and like the beautiful slumbering figure Shelley admired in the Villa Borghese, [6] the Witch's Image is lovely, "surpassing" the beauty of

Shelley's Pod People 2005

Her one decisive action over the course of the entire novel is to try to kill herself--which she botches 'I'm going to go to Salmacis to lay myself down and die'--who thinks like this?

Archive 2006-05-01 Abigail Nussbaum 2006

Her one decisive action over the course of the entire novel is to try to kill herself--which she botches 'I'm going to go to Salmacis to lay myself down and die'--who thinks like this?

Misfortune by Wesley Stace Abigail Nussbaum 2006

The novel quickly glosses over anything exciting that might have happened to Rose during her travels, and rejoins her several months later, on her way to a melodramatic and particularly ill-planned rendezvous with death--she plans to kill herself at the spring of Salmacis, where the mythical story of Hermaphroditus was supposed to have taken place there are a few clunky references to this myth, and several others, over the course of the novel.

Misfortune by Wesley Stace Abigail Nussbaum 2006

The novel quickly glosses over anything exciting that might have happened to Rose during her travels, and rejoins her several months later, on her way to a melodramatic and particularly ill-planned rendezvous with death--she plans to kill herself at the spring of Salmacis, where the mythical story of Hermaphroditus was supposed to have taken place there are a few clunky references to this myth, and several others, over the course of the novel.

Archive 2006-05-01 Abigail Nussbaum 2006