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andrewmerritt00's review
5.0
“Its clear that when a father is strong, the son must be even more so, and if he cannot be, he has to accept his own weakness, accustom himself to living amidst the ruins until he learns to construct a strength of a different nature and order than that which characterized his predecessor, given that what has been inherited is of no use.”
“Aeneas puts the future of a city and the life of its people at risk to haul the burden of the past. Anchises will die and be buried at Drepana. Now I am a worn out Aeneas carrying an Anchises on his shoulders, and at every moment he weighs more heavily and plunges me deeper into the mud. When my whole body vanished from the surface (expect perhaps my head) he’ll leap off and abandon me there.”
A deeply moving, beautifully written, heartfelt and heartbreaking tale of a complicated father and son relationship. Highly recommend.
“Aeneas puts the future of a city and the life of its people at risk to haul the burden of the past. Anchises will die and be buried at Drepana. Now I am a worn out Aeneas carrying an Anchises on his shoulders, and at every moment he weighs more heavily and plunges me deeper into the mud. When my whole body vanished from the surface (expect perhaps my head) he’ll leap off and abandon me there.”
A deeply moving, beautifully written, heartfelt and heartbreaking tale of a complicated father and son relationship. Highly recommend.
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