Everything is connected and serendipity is real. Past me who put these books (<em>Eurydice</em> and [b:Appleseed|55659625|Appleseed|Matt Bell|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1605827475l/55659625._SY75_.jpg|83698241]) on hold, had you any idea what you were doing? No, I know you don't. You don't really look too far ahead. In every iteration of the myth, Orpheus always has to turn around. Has to. It will be a different thing entirely if he didn't. That's not to say that the familiar diminishes at every turn. I am always interested in <em>why</em> he turns around at all. What does Eurydice do? No one knows and that's the beauty of it. From the author's Afterword (for future reading. It's never <i>just</i> about the play anymore): Some Important Questions you might ask yourself while reading [Eurydice]: 1. Who have you lost and what would you say to them if you suddenly found you could have more conversations with them? 2. Who would win in a battle between language and music and does there need to be a battle? 3. What is your vision of the afterlife? 4. When you lost the person you loved, did it make a sound? Was it sudden? Seen or unseen? Over a long period or time, or in a single moment? 5. Could you freely give a person you love to another person's love, if you could not be with them? 6. What memories would you keep if you could hide some inside of rain? 7. Who or what would be your own personal Hades? 8. How can we show improvised care for someone we love, even if all we have on earth is a ball of string? 9. How can we mourn in the theater, and what is the proper place for ghosts? <b>10. Are we our memories, or something else?</b>