The Rescuing Theophany Comments

In the first canto of his modern epic poem, The Cantos, Ezra Pound
stages the journey into the Underworld Circe tells Odysseus it is necessary for him to visit. And so he enters that dark realm with his sword and a single pig for his sacrifice to the dark lords. And there
he meets the shade of every single human being who has ever lived -
kings and queens, princes and princesses, peasants and slaves, and all they want, regardless of their earthly status, is to drink some of the pig's blood to revive their lost sense of life. It is very bleak.
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