PseudoPod 488: A Thing Of Terrible Beauty
- Author : Roger Zelazny
- Narrator : Ben Kohanski
- Host : Alasdair Stuart
- Audio Producer : Graeme Dunlop
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“A Thing of Terrible Beauty” first appeared in Fantastic Stories of Imagination, April 1963.
A Thing Of Terrible Beauty by Roger ZelaznyHow like a god of the Epicureans is the audience, at a time like this! Powerless to alter the course of events, yet better informed than the characters, they might rise to their feet and cry out, “Do not!”—but the blinding of Oedipus would still ensue, and the inevitable knot in Jocasta’s scarlet would stop her breathing still.
But no one rises, of course. They know better. They, too, are inevitably secured by the strange bonds of the tragedy. The gods can only observe and know, they cannot alter circumstance, nor wrestle with ananke.
My host is already anticipating the thing he calls “catharsis.” My search has carried me far, and my choice was a good one. Phillip Devers lives in the theater like a worm lives in an apple, a paralytic in an iron lung. It is his world.
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