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The Delight and Pain of being Ulysses.
Ulysses was warned to avoid the sirens, whose song was so wonderful, capable of completely dominate a male sense, would lead him and his oarsmen to sensual ecstasy and to the abandonment of all masks imposed by his ‘I/Ego’. However, having been without Penelope’s love for 10 years, and with desires on the verge of exploding, he could not contain himself and decided to go and meet them. Cunningly, he ordered his rowers to completely block their ears. He also ordered them to tie him tightly to the mast of the ship, so that it would be impossible for even he, such a muscular hero of the Trojan War, to free himself.
So, they sailed to meet the sirens, whose song indeed excited and bewitched Ulysses, taking him to the climax of climaxes of pleasure.
He begged his rowers to release him, in vain.
Anyone who has experienced a full encounter with someone’s desires, body, and soul, one in which time hangs suspended, as if touching on Eternity, can glimpse the delight and pain of Ulysses upon hearing that forbidden song.
What pain?
The pain that comes with the imposed return of the everyday perception of time, making us go back behind the masks.
