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| Epoch | 1947 |
| Work | The first two circles and all the others (Naira Gelashvili, Works, Vol. 4, Tbilisi, 2010) |
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| Quote | “You Medea, your life has become very disorderly, your luck has deserted you (but you also betrayed many people, and who cares about people: you betrayed your motherland, your father, your little brother and finally - both of your children) […] your husband turned out to be worthless and abject […] Though you were the King’s daughter and your mother was the Oceanid or the sorceress, the witch of the high ruler Hecate; Helios himself, as they say, was your grandfather and Circe – your sister or a raiser aunt. […] It is probable that the great country got support from the Main Gods and they blew your mind and made you love their, the so called, lion-heart! Shall it be your fault when the Gods of that country so unpardonably tempered with the confused minds of people […] It is not your fault either, that your son in law is such an unprincipled man (it is probable that this […] introduction […] was sought after by the soul of Guram Makhauri to enter into contact with the distant, turbulent soul of Medea) […] Did not you put to heavy slumber the monster, which guarded that cursed Golden Fleece so faithfully, by means of locally grown natural blends! And later, in your husband’s motherland […] and of course you had local, national raw materials! And that was, when you restored the cut to pieces and then boiled sheep, to inundate Pelias, just like a sheep, was put into boiling water and later you killed the bride of your unfaithful husband and his father by the things, given to you as dowry, i. e. the local herbs. […] And you did not manage to have a good family the second time either (with Egeus) […] You only found the peace of mind in the other world. You found your true half only there […] You married the great Achilles there, who unlike the hesitant Jason, had only one weak heel in this world and in that world such weakness does not amount to much. […] Such diversions by Guram Mkurnali’s point to his deep compassion to Medea’s private, personal matters […] towards the prominent Colchis woman […] (who covered the wound inflicted by her husband’s unfaithfulness – her shame and loneliness in foreign land – by unheard-of madness)”. (pg. 170-172) |
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