wilde_child 's review for:

The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony by Roberto Calasso

4.0

---

Some of the lines in this book are so damn beautiful they make me want to cry:

 'Myth, like language, gives all of itself in each of its fragments. When a myth brings into play repetition and variants, the skeleton of the system emerges for a while, the latent order, covered in seaweed.'

'Myth is more than belief. It is the spell the soul casts on itself.' 

'For centuries people have spoken of the Greek myths as of something to be rediscovered, reawoken. The truth is it is the myths that are still out there waiting to wake us and be seen by us, like a tree waiting to greet our newly opened eyes.'

And finally, a phrase I haven't been able to get out of my head since I read it:

 'The ineffable milk of books'