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The Shape of Stories: How Myths Move Through Bodies and Worlds

The Emerald

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The Story of Sisyphus Ising Falling

The story of sisyphus has been interpreted as one of futility. But is that what it's getting at? Futility is an idea, an ascription. The old stories work in energetic movements. Do you feel the shape of this story? There is a classic tale of rise and fall and rise and fall again.

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