In Greek mythology, the architect and inventor who designed for King Minos of Crete the labyrinth in which was imprisoned the Minotaur, a man-eating monster that was half man and half bull. The labyrinth was so skillfully designed that no one could escape from the maze or the Minotaur. Daed...
And like the Minotaur, my father also felt trapped, frequently, in labyrinths of his own and others' making. The brutal war-machine that dominates this country was one such trap. Another was pain itself, of an existential kind--the pain of loss, of ...