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Posted by second reading
on May 17, 2009, 10:07 pm, in reply to "The Odyssey"
SECOND READING – CALYPSO and HERMES
CALYPSO
He loves me! Why would he want to risk his neck?
HERMES
Well, let’s ask him, shall we? Where is he now?
CALYPSO
On his favorite rock overlooking the bay.
HERMES
Looking east towards Ithaca, no doubt.
CALPYSO
He’s happy. He’s never tried to escape.
HERMES
That rock he sits on was visible from miles out at sea. Belached white, and not by the dung of birds or the throw of the sea, but by a man’s tears.
CALYPSO (angry)
You Gods on your mountain perch, you’re a joke. You’re the high-priests of hypocrisy. When a male God swoops down on a woman or forces himself on some innocent young thing, you call it Fate. When a female God falls for a mortal or takes a man into her bed, an earthquake of disapproval blows its top.
HERMES
You’re confusing politics with matters of the heart. He loves his wife, Penelope. He wasn’t yours to take.
CALPYSO
Not mine? Not mine? That’s the richest yet. Who found him clinging to the keel of his boat at the height of the storm? Who plucked him out of the thrashing waves, kissed breath back into his lungs, pumped his heart with blood, nursed him back to strength, rolled him in love? Not mine? Without me there is no Odysseus.
HERMES
You saved him from death. Does that mean he owes you his life?
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