Langley D’s Reviews > The Song of Achilles > Status Update

She’s KILLING me with the meter!!!!!! She’s KILLING me with it!!!

I think that. An emphasis on Cycles of Violence, There’s Nothing New Under the Sun, Only Slight Variations on the Same Theme— that works best if you’re at extreme ends of the occurrence spectrum. As in. Either there’s a Central Moment where the plot is brought to bear on itself, or again and again and again *everything* is revealed as a reflection of some past or future event. Miller committed to the latter.

Rounding thru ch 16 once more. Madeline my advice to you is start running. I am coming up behind you with a hatchet. Run bitch

Hit the tonal shift in the middle and started googling which translation of the iliad is best to start with as if that’s a viable coping strategy at all

Patroclus I am afraid you are painfully dear to me

I am reading this again I do not gaf. Noting that she is really committing to the use of the epic rhythm here…I only noticed it in the last third of the book on read 1 but it’s like, kinda whenever an Important Object Symbol or Theme is introduced, those syllables line right up so cleanly. Great stuff. Also the mirroring of images in the first couple chapters and last third is. Whew! Powerful!

I have finished. Which is to say I have been gutted like a fish and left to die in the sun. Very beautiful work you have done here Madeline Miller but at what a cost it was you did it. Christ

This shit is ruining my life