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You don't even live once<\/h2><\/div>

Persephone in a coma<\/h2><\/div>
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A teenage girl is in the hospital for an accident. Two mothers care for her. More precisely, they are two parts of the mind of the same mother. One is the other and the other is the one. One is Demeter, the other is the girl's mother. The girl is also disunited. One is the virtual disanimated bareness of her body, the other is Persephone, the divine maiden, the one who is in charge of the growth that preludes birth, the seed buried in darkness without which planting is impossible, the little Demeter in whose absence Demeter cannot exist.<\/p>\n

A doctor informs the mother that her daughter is in a coma and may never return to life. As the woman despairs Demeter hurls her curse at the earth and condemns her to sterility. The goddess asks Hades, her brother, to return her daughter to her, but Persephone is not with him; she has run away without explanation. The two shreds of mother blame each other for what has happened. As doomed to creation, all their actions, all their reactions bring into the world and take out of the world all that exists or does not exist. As the everyday mother has a nervous breakdown and falls asleep, Demeter imagines waking up from a sleep that has lasted, perhaps, millions of centuries, realizing that she remembers nothing of what has happened over time, and she disidentifies with herself.<\/p>\n

Persephone meanwhile, stranded at the airport since planes no longer depart due to the fact that there are no more than five hours until the end of the world, tries to get in touch via cellular video call with her mother who has been broken in two and left to assist her comatose body.He would like to meet her again and be reunited with her for the last time.But neither the goddess nor her double receive the communication, which remains recorded on an immaterial answering machine.
\nThe daily mother becomes convinced that she is the cause of her daughter's death and that she cannot free herself from the curse of procreation.Persephone, in the depths of her mind, tries to explain to her mother the reasons for her estrangement, the reason for her resignation from Persephone.Men are not interested in her as a prelude to the bud; they want to consume her before she even comes into existence. The daily mother asks the deity, if not to free her, to grant her a reprieve from the curse of procreation.<\/p>\n

Demeter then resigns as goddess of growth, GDP, and job multiplication. She decides to permanently interrupt the cycle of the seasons.
\nPersephone calls for the last time to her mother, invoking her protection. A fire has broken out at the airport, the planes are on fire, there is no way back. The daily mother unplugs the machinery that keeps her daughter's body alive. As the world ends the three women reunite by burying themselves together, like new Persephones, under the ashes of the city overwhelmed by Hades.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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