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The Correspondent
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“All men hate the wretched; how then must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us.
Isadora
the fact that victor’s first word to the creature was an insult/defamation…and this line in particular hits so hard, because it acknowledges the unbreakable bond between creator and created (parent and child). the creature knows that he is cast out, knows that he is alone and hated. his entreaty to victor is thought out, but also still desperate.
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“We reached for each other, and I thought of how many nights I had lain awake loving him in silence.”
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Madeline Miller
“That is — your friend?"
"Philtatos," Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved.”
Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller
“I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.”
Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller
“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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“but these women! It is no surprise that the noun friend is derived from an ancient root word meaning to love, that it is etymologically bound to the word free. These marvelous women give her the confidence that what she is doing is right.”
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