- half women.
They bemoaned their Condition ALONE to themselves, and to their "sisters." Although the popular MYTH has been, to blame them for their maliciousness, in luring men and their ships on to their rocky shores, causing their death, through the sound of their inimitably BEAUTIFUL voices..Yet, mine is another version : As I have agreed with Franz Kafka, the great writer. The Sirens had no ill intention. Their beautiful singing was not a deliberate Lure, instead it was NOT singing at all! It was a Lament, they uttered, a wail, a mournful sound, heard as song, which told of the sorrow they felt for their Condition of Uniqueness, Exception, and Isolation. For they were DOOMED CREATURES All! : half fish, half women; Their state, gave them NO Place in the World! Their Lament, BEAUTIFUL, as it was - magnetized the men to them and their own death, but was not done from malice. But from the lament of sorrow which was So Beautifully Heard.
Valid do you think, this version of the Myth?
2007-12-05
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