I begin twisting and coiling strips of paper into a shape which I refer to as the wrapping. The wrapping serves as the core from which the sculpture (cover) emerges with the layers of covers satisfying the wrapping's need for concealment (solitude). Restrained within custody all alone of not this world oscillating strings        tears blood pharmaκi                                                               Φarmaκeia Oreithuia καtά strophe κataβαsis by the Dawn's eerily light snow stains ροδοfingerς rosytoeς  endure horror more POLIS STATE  a beast more savage than TYPHONOS  drunken laughter TERRORism POLITEIA TERRORist  bait tackle tether rag gag bone-thin suppliant ΜENIN AEΙDΕ THEA    sing                         γλωσσα εαγε:                                                     'violence βια he is taking me  by force  sea  otοtοtοtοi  μα Mother  Γα Earth  Zeus Ζευ  turn him away  terrorizing φοβερον'                                                       Suppliants 885-900                                                           are guards in front  you will say 'of earth ... of starry heavens ... thirst ... burning  ΗΚΑΙΠΟΛΛΥΑ I am dying ... give me water ... cold from  AΠΟΛΙΜΝΗ of Memory'   ΘΑΝΕΙΟ (.......) ΟΔΕΓΡΑ (the ... of memory ... about) to die ... covering imprison                        TΩΓΛΩΣΙΠΑΣΚΟΤΟΣΑΜΦΙΚΑΛΥΨ                                                   Orphic 4-3rd c. BCE                                                 Your face shows streaming tears of blood veiling slips scorned teats of anguish slashing deep pain proclaim pharmaκο in vain πικρο το κριμα  'I nursed for nothing ... this mother's breast ... cover my wretched face ... ship ... force ... death ... own child'  'turbulence ... murdered me ... sea ... unmourned disembodied ... washed up on shore ... I asked of the gods ... be buried by her hands ... I see my mother coming ... stumbling'         Euripides c. 480-406 BCE                         taken over by the officers ... should one ... never see the light of day ... threnody ... of old a quarrel a diffεrance μέν τίς διαφορά ... especially when Homer is her interpreter ... grounds for dismissing her from our city ... her character ... may she not justly return from this exile after she has pleaded her defense?                                                         Politeia 460b,607c                                                                δέ Δίκης Justice is dragged where men ... verdicts ... false judgements with crooked injustice  weeping she visits a city ... enveloped in mist invisibility ... κακον evil to those who drive her out and do not deal straight                                               Works and Days 218-42                                               she suffered ... hate him ... if it was love ... alarms the mind ... fear caused by sight ... madness ... or persuaded by speech or seized by force or compelled by divine Necessity in every case she escapes the accusation                                         Yoryiaς 483-375 BCE                                                                     even deny perspectivity ... in the role of doctor we may ask 'what has caused such a canker on the most beautiful plant of antiquity on Plato?  did that wicked Soκrateς ... and deserved his hemlock?'                                                              In revenge and in love women are more barbaric then men.   Anyone who fights with monsters should take care that he does not become a monster and if you gaze for long into the abyss the abyss gazes back into you.   What is done out of love always takes place Beyond Good and Evil.                                                                                           what god was it then set them together in bitter collision? ... gold the ribbons ... Λητώ of the lovely hair bore ... 'pay for my tears shed' ... Argoς ... fragrant smoke of lambs ... bird interpreters ... winged words ... as sheep in a man of possessions' steading stand in their myriads waiting      drained of their γάλα milk λευκόν white and bleat interminably as they hear ακουουσαι the voice of their lambs αρνων                                                       ημος δ' ηρεγενεια early Dawn φανη ροδοδακτυλος ... her choroi ... 'cave ... wine gurgled up from his ... human meat ... drunken vomiting' ... while the men behind her with their spear butts hitting κοπτοντες back and shoulders force her up and lead her away into captivity to have hard work ... pitiful δακρυα weeping ... 'my child ... terrible waters that flow not unless one has a well-made ship ... ill-fated beyond all others ... soul ... dream ... must strive back toward the light ... remember' ... 'die twice' ...'Centaur famous Eurytion ... wine ... his brains went wild ... first ... own evil in heavy drinking ... King Echetoς ... mutilates ... dogs to feed on raw' ... 'cure of evils ... fire ... sulphur'                                                    brushed it away as lightly as when a mother brushes a fly away from her child who is lying in sweet sleep steering herself the arrow's course straight ... and praying she supplicated ... 'grant that the man be hurled on his face ... pity ... innocent children' ... denied the prayer ... seizes the innocent young of the running ... rips out the soft heart ... first the lion breaks her neck caught fast in the strong teeth ... gulps down the blood and all the guts that are inward ... no one could save these two from death ... running in fear ... warm tears like a spring dark-running down the face of a rock ... drips ... 'crying like some poor little girl who runs after her mother and begs to be picked up and carried and clings to her dress ... gazes tearfully into her face' ... 'daughters dragged ... innocent children ... dashed to the ground' ... 'twelve glorious sons ... cut the throats' ... 'mother carries still in her womb ... unseen' ... 'my child ... hurl you' ... * - Ηώς αρπάζοντα τό σωμα τό Μέμνοντας - ... wept tears of blood that fell to the ground ... emerges out of her timbered cover to face the man ... hunting her ... Orion's Dog which is the brightest among the stars ... as a sign of evil ... unfortunate mortals ... 'an old man is dead and down and the dogs mutilate ... head ... beard ... parts that are private this for all sad humanity is the sight most pitiful' ... with one hand held out her breast and wept her tears ... in winged words ... his back blood-mottled ... fluttered about him and as she shrilled he caught her by the wing and coiled around her ... as when a hawk ... plunges for her ... his effortless swoop for a trembling ... again and again heart furious to take her ... made his swoop like a high-flown eagle who launches himself out of the murk of the clouds ... catch away a tender lamb ... or a shivering ... 'he would not bold as a κυνεος dog though he be dare look in my face' ... but he did hit the string beside the foot where the ... was tied ... cut the string ... soared swift up toward the sky while the string dropped and dangled toward the ground ... under the clouds ... the tremulous ... 'nor wolves and lambs have spirit that can be brought to agreement ... forever ... hate for each other' ... as she circled struck her under the wing in the body and the shaft passed clean through and out ... drooped and fell ... drooped her neck and the beating wings went slack and the spirit of life fled swift away from her limbs ... 'but my glory shall be everlasting' ... νηος from the mast peak she dropped to earth and the people gazed upon it and wondered ... as a star moves among stars in the night's darkening Esperoς who is the fairest star ... shining from the pointed spear ... in his right hand ... evil intention ... collar-bones hold the neck from the shoulders the throat ... death of the soul ... in this place ... the soft part of the neck ... cut not the windpipe ... exchange of words ... 'entreat ... by your knees' ... 'hack your meat away and eat it raw' ... dying ... spoke: 'I know you well as I look upon you ... I could not persuade you ... truly ... heart of iron be careful now for I might be made into the τι θεων gods' μηνιμα wrath upon you' ... soul fluttering ... down into the Death's house mourning her destiny ... 'in his fury he dishonors the mute γαιαν earth' ... 'detest ... hides one thing in the depths of his heart but speaks forth another  ... six daughters and six sons ... for nine days they lay in their blood' ... and shining among the divinities ... took up her κυανεον ... μελαντερον ink black veil ... no darker garment rapid wind-footed Iris guided ... swept to the sky ... 'with an unforgotten grief in your heart I myself know ... a quarrel among the immortals over the body ... keen-sighted Argeiphonteς to steal the body' ... 'but on the tenth day the Uranian gods buried them ... tears among the rocks' ... dung lay thick on the head and neck ... rolling in it ... smeared it on with his hands ... 'man who is savage and not to be trusted will not take pity nor have respect for your rights ... weep ... Μοιρα Fate ... her thread ... εγω μεσον ηπαρ εχοιμι would that I might cleave to the liver ... teeth in the middle ... eat it ... payback'                                                                               Iliad, Odyssey c. 750 BCE                                                    The sharp-eyed courage that tempts and attempts that craves the frightful as the enemy the worthy enemy against whom one can test one's strength? from whom one can learn what it means 'to be frightened?'                                                   The Birth of Tragedy                                              that is, each particle is a single string - and all strings are absolutely identical ... is akin to a cosmic symphony ... string theory provides the promise of a single all-inclusive, unified description of the physical universe: a theory of everything (T.O.E.) ... an extended object ... dimensions ... shape of a hollow donut ... beyond our ability to draw, more complicated possibilities can be imagined ... some scientists argue vociferously that a theory so removed from direct empirical testing lies in the realm of philosophy or theology, but not physics. (B Greene, string theorist)                                                                                      *Pollux: 4.130: Dawn snatches the body of Memnon - Αethiopiς c. 8th BCE                                                                                                         'write with blood and you will find that blood is spirit'