| Mira's sparagmos almost literalizes the central message of the Orpheus myth for Rushdie. |
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| For such characters, the sparagmos represents the moment when history claims their work for its own. |
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| He has become the victim of sparagmos, in which the maenads tear animals limb from limb and eat their flesh raw. |
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| Dionysian sparagmos was an ecstasy of sexual excitation and superhuman strength. |
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