The Eternally Adaptable Myth Of Orpheus

David Patrick Stearns: “This time, might the story come out differently? So says your brain at every encounter with [the] Orpheus and Eurydice [story] … This time, Eurydice won’t die on her wedding day. And then she does. But when her husband Orpheus goes to the underworld to retrieve her, he won’t ruin his second chance with a forbidden backward glance. And then he does.”