Deathless

opening; Asterion; Horns’ cradle (song with drones).

Daidalos fashions one automaton and later, one labyrinth.

Catches in the curdling air the musk and salt of Attic fear / pauses / moves forward priapic.

interlude 1; Crouched beast-like / pauses / eyes rolling back, throat opening / pauses / moves forward, inexorable.

The Minotaur sits exhausted, knuckles skinless, toes sticky with blood, head in hands.

The Minotaur classifies the tunnels of the Labyrinth into their correct species, and calls out the long poem of their enumeration.

exegesis 1; The Minotaur maps and re-maps the Labyrinth in his mind’s eye, proposing, at its centre, a heterotopia.

In flight from Knossos (its teeming streets labyrinthine) the Minotaur sings a great lament.

interlude 2; In Babel, for Ishtar, the Minotaur scratches with a stick his plan for a great library.

The Minotaur, tearful and repentant, joins a flagellant procession on its way to Kloster Eberbach.

exegesis 2; The Minotaur sits, stunned and appalled, in Bunyan's Salvage.

The Minotaur, his heart racing, recognises the Labyrinth. Leans forward, clicks 'like'.

coda; Consolation; a kind of life (song with drones).