Variations on an Apple by Yoon Ha Lee
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Overview: “For the fairest.” Past, present, and future. Again.
The goddesses came to him three, when he was already thinking about numbers. One had her hair high crowned with peacock’s feathers woven together, and her mouth sardonic. One had hair the color of a yellow sun above the noontide sea, foam-fine, her eyes sideways smiling. And the last was tapping a war beat upon the helmet under her arm, one-two, one-two-three, one-two.
He didn’t see them at first, lost in sandglass musings, and polygons begetting polygons, and infinite sums. In one-to-one correspondences and sheep counted by knots upon cords. An abacus, resting on his knee, dreamed of binary numbers and quantum superpositions; harmless enough, in this slant of time. It wasn’t so much that Paris was a mathematician. Rather, it was that Ilion was a creation of curvatures and angles and differential seductions, and he was the city’s lover.
Then the first visitor said, quietly but not gently, “Paris,” and he looked up.
Genre: Fantasy, Mythology, Short Stories
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