Hi Perpetua,
The other agencies come after the press conference. However, by this time
she has re-married as per Euripidies play to Aegeus.
bw
James


>From: Perpetua Pullman <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: New sub: Medea And The Media
>Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 21:11:17 +0000
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>A passionate bit of writing James - I can see her, doorstepped by a mob of
>microphones - but, if we are going to be modern about this, where are the
>sirens, social workers and psychiatrists??
>
>P-P
>
>
>>From: James Bell <[log in to unmask]>
>>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: New sub: Medea And The Media
>>Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 13:47:50 +0000
>>
>>There was a revival of the Euripides a while back and it drew this
>>response
>>from me. The thinking is how Greek tragedy fits into our own worlds.
>>Re-eading the original play (in translation) I found Euripidies handled
>>his
>>theme with a terrific sensitivity the belittles the media pack that hound
>>news and make them sensational. So this is where the poem is coming from.
>>
>>MEDEA AND THE MEDIA
>>
>>So I killed the kids -
>>this is what you want to hear, isn't it?
>>
>>I killed them after Jason left me and our boys
>>for that bitch Glauce, King Creon's daughter.
>>
>>I'm told for love, but, come on, pull the other one,
>>we're all adults here, let's remember I'm not a Greek
>>and Corinth aspires to an Athenian sense of order.
>>
>>You don't want that detail though. Do you?
>>Explanation is not vbald enough tragedy
>>for a sound bite -
>>all you want is a picture of me
>>bathed in the blood of my sons
>>as I wail and hold their bodies in my arms.
>>
>>You are all quick to bray like a Greek chorus
>>in neat, pat cliche.
>>At least they were there to tell the truth,
>>be yiour interior conscience to argue with
>>and to help the story along.
>>
>>They weren't false friends either
>>and didn't invade your personal space
>>with their masks still on.
>>
>>Remember this though -
>>and you can check what Euripides says,
>>murdering my lovely sons
>>was not the first thing to enter my head.
>>Whatever you think it's not full of air -
>>and you weren't there.
>>
>>What? You don't understand,
>>either what I say or why I did it by my own hand?
>>
>>That's it. Interview's over.
>>Thanks for coming to the home of Aegeus, son of Pandion.
>>
>>
>>bw
>>James
>>
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