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[kradeelav]

"Perhaps it would be better, then, to say that those who work the edge between what can and can’t be said do not escape from shame but turn toward it and engage with it. They wrestle with it; they try to change its face; they kill it in one form so as to resurrect it in another. Hermes is a shameless speaker in the Hymn, but that poem regularly refers to him as the Slayer of Argus, as if to remind us that he doesn’t simply avoid shame, he faces it and fights it if he has to."

- Trickster Makes the World