The Double Tongue
The Double Tongue The Double Tongue is William Golding's last and perhaps most superbly imaginative novel. As a young girl, Arieka is ugly, unconventional, a source of great shame to her uppity…
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The Double Tongue
The Double Tongue is William Golding's last and perhaps most superbly imaginative novel. As a young girl, Arieka is ugly, unconventional, a source of great shame to her uppity parents, who fear they'll never marry her off. It is a fictional memoir of an aged prophetess at Delphi, the most sacred oracle of ancient Greece, just prior to Greece's domination by the Roman Empire.
Arieka has now spent a lifetime at the mercy of a god, a priest, and her devotees, and has witnessed firsthand the decay of Delphi's fortunes and its influence in the world. But she is saved by Ionides, the High Priest of the Delphic temple, who detects something of a seer (and a friend) in her and whisks her off to the shrine to become the Pythia - the earthly voice of the god Apollo. Her reflections on the mysteries of the oracle, which her own weird gifts embody, are matched by her feminine insight into