Broom Broom by Brecken Hancock

Author:Brecken Hancock
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781770563797
Publisher: Coach House Books
Published: 2014-03-01T00:00:00+00:00

1046 BCE: Warriors of the Zhou Dynasty observe rituals of hair washing to preserve honour in battle. In one famous tale, Confucius visits Lao-tzu while the latter curtains his hair over a scabbard to dry.

603 BCE: King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon crawls like a vole through the dust. For seven years he lives with beasts, tearing and eating his own skin. God tortures him with dementia, body lice, swampy testicles and incontinence. In every bracken bush he sees a nightjar, the psychopomp’s familiar, come to chirr him down to the Great Below. Finally pardoned for his sin of arrogance and allowed to live, he returns to the Hanging Gardens where slaves sluice the filth from his body, scrubbing him with soap congealed from goat blubber and cremation ash.

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