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CONTENTS

Introduction

i A Low Art

ii The Chorus Line: A Rope-Jumping Rhyme

iii My Childhood

iv The Chorus Line: Kiddie Mourn, A Lament by the Maids

v Asphodel

vi My Marriage

vii The Scar

viii The Chorus Line: If I Was a Princess, A Popular Tune

ix The Trusted Cackle-Hen

x The Chorus Line: The Birth of Telemachus, An Idyll

xi Helen Ruins My Life

xii Waiting

xiii The Chorus Line: The Wily Sea Captain, A Sea Shanty

xiv The Suitors Stuff Their Faces

xv The Shroud

xvi Bad Dreams

xvii The Chorus Line: Dreamboats, A Ballad

xviii News of Helen

xix Yelp of Joy

xx Slanderous Gossip

xxi The Chorus Line: The Perils of Penelope, A Drama

xxii Helen Takes a Bath

xxiii Odysseus and Telemachus Snuff the Maids

xxiv The Chorus Line: An Anthropology Lecture

xxv Heart of Flint

xxvi The Chorus Line: The Trial of Odysseus, as Videotaped by the Maids

xxvii Home Life in Hades

xxviii The Chorus Line: We’re Walking Behind You, A Love Song

xxix Envoi

Notes

Acknowledgements