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The Transformation of Io – extract from Ovid’s Metamorphoses

By TF | Published: December 26, 2009
If only words could have followed her tears she’d have begged him for help; she’d have told him her hame and described her plight. Two letters were all that could serve for words, two letters traced by a hoof in the dust, which revealed her name and her sorry transformation. ‘Woe and alas!’ old Inachus [...]
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Another presence – Extract from An Imaginary Life

By TF | Published: December 8, 2009
Almost immediately, in the golden light of a fine autumn day, with the sky broken in rainpools among the drifts of yellow leaves, he is there, standing quite still and taller after two years among the slashed birches. I am filled with joy. He is there. He is real. The others see him too. He [...]
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