The Golden Ass by Peter Singer & Apuleius & Ellen Finkelpearl

Author:Peter Singer & Apuleius & Ellen Finkelpearl [Peter Singer & Apuleius & Ellen Finkelpearl]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Published: 2021-03-30T00:00:00+00:00

This woman persecuted me with a spectacular hatred. Even before dawn, when she was still in bed, she shouted loudly that the new ass should be hooked up to the mill, and as soon as she had emerged from her bedroom, she stood there demanding that I be struck with countless blows in her presence. And when all the other pack animals were set loose for their regular meals, she would order me brought to my manger much later.

That cruelty of hers vastly increased my natural curiosity about her habits and way of life, as I had noticed a certain young man constantly going in and out of her bedroom—quite openly. I was just dying to see his face; if only the blinders around my head could have given my eyes a clear view at some point, I would certainly have found the cleverness to expose this horrible woman’s crimes one way or another. But some old woman who served as facilitator for her perversions and go-between for her adulteries was her inseparable companion day in and day out. Together at breakfast and then over cups of undiluted wine, they took turns hurling abuse at the woman’s poor husband and crafting intricate schemes and deceitful plots to destroy him. Meanwhile, though I was furious at Fotis’s mistake in making me an ass while trying to make me a bird, I kept myself going with this one little consolation for my awful disfigurement: now that I was endowed with enormous ears, I could easily hear everything that was said, even at a fair distance.

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