I will, therefore, not hesitate to refine such borderlinking listening and lucid gaze, as Tiresias would. |
Describing himself in the image of a master of explanation, he would combine the virtues of the Giver with those of the good old Tiresias. |
Purposely he changes the word for soul to the masculine, to show that it was Tiresias. |
I drew my sword and waved them back until I should question the soul of Tiresias. |
Who could have supposed that all this time Tiresias was concocting an epigram on Pluto! |
Divination was historically not gender specific but frequently androgynous, as the hermaphroditic figure of Tiresias exemplifies. |