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Date Posted: 06:12:12 01/31/08 Thu
Author: Betsy Peters
Subject: Re: Till We Have Faces
In reply to: Erin Risch 's message, "Till We Have Faces" on 18:36:07 01/29/08 Tue

Trying to recall the story, I wonder how we can read the imitative "veiling" in the book. The ugly queen chooses to wear a veil so that her face cannot be seen. Whatever desire this represents, Cupid seems to mirror the same desire--he only comes to Psyche at night when she cannot see him. It is the moment when Psyche brings a candle into her bedchamber to see her mysterious night visitor that she exiles herself from his presence. Who, we might ask, encouraged her to "unveil" her mysterious night visitor? None other than her veiled ugly sister who appropriates all her hideousness onto the unknown creature. She tells Psyche that he is probably a monster and horrible to behold, when this is the reality of the queen behind the veil.

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