—George Wallace
It moves like a live thing in his hands
The story, his story
Bloody and sacred, truth and lie
—Ellen McLaughlin
A few years ago, a series of little novels started to appear, preceded by a book of introduction called A Short History of Myth. The first novel in the series was The Penelopiad, by Margaret Atwood. Atwood’s premise, “to give the telling of the story to Penelope and to the twelve hanged maids,” was promising.
