Looking at Each Other: Orpheus Re-Cycled
The Perils of Reciprocal Oculation
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Looking at Each Other: Orpheus Re-Cycled
Narrated by:
Kate Walsh
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Narrated by:
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Kate Walsh
Cyclists 'looking at each other' during a race is generally taken by commentators to be a portent of disaster. But why? Bike-racers, after all, are mostly young and easy on the eye. This epic recycling of the Orpheus myth unearths the dark legend behind the mystery of mutual admiration and shows why it is that, since the very ancient of days, riders have been encouraged, on pain of defeat (or worse), to keep their eyes modestly lowered and forwardly directed. And it does it in rhyming couplets.
©2023 Simon J. Reynolds (P)2025 Simon J. Reynolds
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