Bacche
Bacche was a lonesome girl and longed to become a Meanade, a follower of Dionysus, god of the wine. She wanted to make friends, but Meanades were notorious for their drunkenness so she had to take an exam. She received a bottle of wine from the god and drank it in one gulp.
She had never drunk a drop before. The wine intoxicated her. She grabbed onto a pillar but it was too late. She died of alcohol poisoning and passed her exam with flying colours…
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Cette procédure qui guette
Ceux que la société rejette
Sous prétexte qu'ils n'ont peut-être
Ni Dieu ni maître
Cette parole d'évangile
Qui fait plier les imbéciles
Et qui met dans l'horreur civile
De la noblesse et puis du style
Ce cri qui n'a pas la rosette
Cette parole de prophète
Je la revendique et vous souhaite
Ni Dieu ni maître
(...)
This procedure which awaits
Those that society rejects
Under the pretext that they may have
Neither God nor master
This word of gospel
Who makes fools bend
And which puts in civil horror
Nobility and then style
This cry which does not have the rosette
This prophetic word
I claim it and wish you
Neither God nor master
Archeological site by Engin Akyurt
