“Descend you weary-laden, descend in the dark earth,
help me to finish swiftly my dread master's shroud,
let each hem hold my pain, each corner hide a crow,
a lean, voracious crow to peck his heart out bit by bit.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Slave's prayer, Book XI, line 708
The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel (1938)

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Greek writer 1883–1957

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