Ransom

Words are powerful. They too can be the agents of what is new, of what is conceivable and can be thought and let loose upon the world.

He had entered the rough world of men, where a man's acts follow him wherever he goes in the form of story.

She had given him up. That was the hard condition of his being and of all commerce between them.

The bronze-haired avenger of his father's death, already filled with the fierce light of the future, is at sea and sailing fast for Troy.

However the story is told and elaborated, the raw shame of it will be with him now til his last breath.