> Orpheus has become a wanderer in cyberspace. Orphee of old,
> murdered by the Thracian dames. Picked up by Dame Death who, (in Cocteau's
> Orpheus), dressed like a motorcycle tough, a sweet French gal of the 30's,
> reapppears in cyber-space. Looking for Eurydice, his lover, kidnapped by
> the gangster King Death. Looking for Eurydice, she finds him. She finds
> the self and the body she-he is. He finds her ambivalence peculiar. An
> artist in this incarnation, he wonders where she can be found. In the
> prose-poem canto following, our narrator speaks the ambiguous. Space
> brings together on the dead bark of cyber ruins the scattered bodies of
> torn up lovers, the famous and infamous, the unknown and the legendary.
> The big names and the little ones. Orpheus although known the world over
> is really not a person at all. Now the little voice of the Orphic ritual
> speaks, and the paranoid reactionary voices of repression gather round to
> kill him. Will Eurydice rise to the occasion and save her lover? Will
he break the ground in vain? Will she remain indifferent to the being
she has touched over the ether? Will the captured silence of Eurydice
always reveal a coward's ploy, a coward's honor? WIll Eurydice silence her own
> death wish and reach out to the lover of time no longer bound by space?
> Will Orpheus learn to look without killing what he loves? Will looking
back no longer be a torment for either of them? Will he undo the death
wish in his own body. Because now, Orpheus is a poet, as she Eurydice
is also a daughter of the Muse.
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