lit meme → ten series or books
iv. the song of achilles by madeline miller
The greater the monument, the greater the man. The stone the Greeks quarry for his grave is huge and white, stretching up to the sky. A C H I L L E S, it reads. It will stand for him, and speak to all who pass: he lived and died, and lives again in memory.
chapter nine // chapter thirty-one
the song of achilles by madeline miller
“average person kills 3 Trojans a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person kills 0 Trojans per year. Achilles, who is enraged over the death of Patroclus & kills over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
To my monstrous love –
They have told your story
So many ways now,
And the only thing that does not change
Is how much we loved each other.
In our story,
I always die for you,
And you always die
To be with me.
You are always too proud,
And I am always too slow –
The son of Zeus falls to my borrowed spear,
But I can never outrun Hector.
When they carry my body back to you,
You cry,
And your mother in her deep cold caves
The blue-green graves below the sea,
Hears you and knows
You will follow me, soon.
She wishes for a different story
Than the one she helped to write,
As do we all,
But we were always following each other –
She should have expected nothing less.
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