The immovable bed built around the olive tree is Jiang's image for Odysseus' heart, home, and love: carefully made, rooted, and unable to be moved.
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BED
A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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"...words, they cut me to the core. Who can move my bed? Impossible task, even for some skilled craftsman. Unless a god came down..."
"...skill, I shaped a plumb to the line to make my bed posts, bored the holes it needed with an auger. Working from there,..."
"...Are you really my husband? Do you really know that this bed is something that can't be moved? And Odysseus says, yes, I know,..."
"for you, and it cannot be moved. And it's something that is the foundation of who I am. So I will never ever leave..."
"...like that sick woman who finds no rest upon her feather bed but turning tossing tries to"
"...sighs, would rest his cheek upon his palm as on a bed. Father and father -in -law of the pest of France, they know..."
"...that. The sun will not have rested seven times within the bed that's covered and held fast by all the"
"Now she who shares the bed of old Tithonus, abandoning the arms of her sweet lover, grew white along the eastern balcony. The heavens..."
"...so slow and hesitant that the declining moon had reached its bed to sink back into rest. Before we had made our way through..."
"His feet had scarcely reached the bed that lies along the deep below than those ten demons were on the edge above us. But..."
"...this visit from hell, basically. And I'm afraid to go to bed every night. Because I know what's waiting for me in my dreams...."
"...and she goes to is my grandma so she goes to bed at this time that's when the envelope comes to the other person..."
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