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Mar 2014
The Sirens might be called the Muses of the lower world, Walter Copland Perry observed: "Their song, though irresistibly sweet, was no less sad than sweet, and lapped both body and soul in a fatal lethargy, the forerunner of death and corruption.".....  The term "siren song" refers to an appeal that is hard to resist but that, if heeded, will lead to a bad conclusion. Later writers have implied that the Sirens were cannibals, based on Circe's description of them "lolling there in their meadow, round them heaps of corpses rotting away, rags of skin shriveling on their bones."*  


you
  may
    as
      well
        stop
          h­iding
        by
      all
    means
  continue
with
  your
    writing
      keep
        trying
          to
        mind-****
      the
    masses
the real you shines through....in every word you write
Any present moment
Written by
Any present moment
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   Emily Tyler
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