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It would also mean disregarding the fact that while, on the one hand, it is only in death and in renouncing linguistic symbolization that the transcendent, overwhelming experience of unity can fi nally and fully be achieved, on the other hand Ovid did, in his poetry, create linguistic fantasies that made alternative realities possible.
He is allowing it to speak out of him” (IL 92). In this act of becoming, the Child shows Ovid a path to “drive out my old self and let the universe in” (IL 96). Ovid’s plan of educating the Child to speak encounters the superstitious skepticism of the villagers who fear his demonic powers. During a fever, in his delirium, the Child utters for the fi rst time a human word; this causes the family of the village’s chief, Ryzak, with whom Ovid and the Child are staying, to fear that he has snatched one of their souls.
In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Tiresias answers Liriope’s question as to whether her son Narcissus would live a long life with the prophetic but obscure reply that he will live, as long as he does not come to know himself (“Si se non noverit”; Met III, line 348, pp. 148–149). Narcissus—whose fate is the agony of unrequited desire that leads him to distraction from the moment he gazes upon himself, and the anguish of unrequitable desire that leads him to destruction from the moment he recognizes himself in the face of the beloved—must be denied self-knowledge if he is to live and be sane.