The Anathemata

Middle-sea and Lear-sea (continued)

Agelastos Petra . . . 3

and yet you smile from your stone.

David Jones notes

3 Agelastos Petra, ‘the laughless rock’. See note 1 to page 56 above.

additional notes

‘you’ can refer to both Demeter (resting on her laughless stone during her search for Persephone) and Persephone (smiling from her stone image).

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