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The prompt: Furies

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1. Music. The only thing I could find was Dance of the Furies, which is Act 2, Scene 1 of Gluck's opera Orfeo ed Euridice [1762].



2. Poem. Using 3 card from my Edward Gorey deck, I constructed a narrative verse of Orpheus at the gates of Hell, soothing the Furies by singing their backstories. The past O is Orestes.

The young man’s name was O. He stood before the gate.
Hell’s iron fence was strong. Beyond lived sisters three.
Called sisters, of three bloods, they stood, they made him wait,
remembering an O they’d doggèd verily
they’d hounded him to death, to final breath, the three.
That O had slain his mare. This O did tote a lyre.
This O had lost his love, he sang out wretchedly,
he knew them as they neared, history and desire,
with song, he sung their early days, with song, he drew them with his lyre.

( rest of poem )

3. Moodboard. Of poem.



4. TV/Fic. And finally, in the TV show Lewis Season 1, Episode 1, Whom the Gods Would Destroy, the instigator calls herself Fury and she is avenging a past murder. I liked Professor Gold in this. I did a ficlet inspired by this called Happier Endings [800 words, rating: Teen] in which Sherlock Holmes recounts to Watson the story of how during his uni years, he prevented the original murder in the Lewis episode.