Object plate
The Bag of Winds
Textual fact
Aeolus gives Odysseus a tied bag containing the winds that would blow the ship off course. Ithaca is sighted. The crew opens the bag.
The bag is a gift that requires not being opened. It fails as a social object before it fails as a magical one. Almost-home is the weather it makes.
What does an object carry besides its contents: trust, secrecy, the chance to arrive?
- Culture
- Homeric Greek
- Place · Literary
- Aeolia
- Narrative office
- Gift that requires not being opened.
Objects from different cultures are not interchangeable because they share a field.
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