Transcription: How long till Athens? asked Theseus. The days spent sailing had been good for him. Rested after his fight, he spent much time talking with the Rhapsod, as he had on the voyage out to Crete. They spoke more of grief, in particular of the grief of Minos and the harm it had caused. Orpheus had faced the loss that always accompanied love. Was Minos's revenge Minos's way of refusing to see that loss? Throwing Athenian lives into the hole left by his son's death, as if he could somehow fill that hole?
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