A Phoenix-Mermaid’s Cancer Manifesto

The Beginning

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A chattering crow lives out nine generations of aged men,
but a stag’s life is four times a crow’s,
and a raven’s life makes three stags old,
while the phoenix outlives nine ravens,
but we, the rich-haired Nymphs
daughters of Zeus the aegis-holder,
outlive ten phoenixes.

— Precepts of Chiron, Hesiod