"Oh, Ebenezer, what a safe and terrible answer!" Aprhodite's voice was like a whipcrack.
"It is plain that what we once had is never to be now. Can even I believe that you who, in your very confidence with hme, weigh everything by Gain: or, choosing me, if for a moment you were false enough to your one guiding principle to do so, do I not know that your repentance and regret would surely follow? I do; and I release you. With a full heart, for the love of him you once were. You may -- the memory of what is past half makes me hope you will -- have pain in this. A very, very brief time, and you will dismiss the recollection of it, gladly, as an unprofitable dream, from which it happened well that you awoke. May you be happy in the life you have chosen."
And with that, Aphrodite kissed him once more, and stormed off the stage.
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Date: 2012-01-04 01:02 pm (UTC)"It is plain that what we once had is never to be now. Can even I believe that you who, in your very confidence with hme, weigh everything by Gain: or, choosing me, if for a moment you were false enough to your one guiding principle to do so, do I not know that your repentance and regret would surely follow? I do; and I release you. With a full heart, for the love of him you once were. You may -- the memory of what is past half makes me hope you will -- have pain in this. A very, very brief time, and you will dismiss the recollection of it, gladly, as an unprofitable dream, from which it happened well that you awoke. May you be happy in the life you have chosen."
And with that, Aphrodite kissed him once more, and stormed off the stage.