Sailing off the Map

The courage to leave the place whose language you learnedas early as your own, whose customs however dan-gerous or demeaning, bind you like a halteryou have learned to pull inside...The courage to walk out of the pain that is knowninto the pain that cannot be imagined...So they walked out of Egypt. So they bribed their way...out of pain into death or freedom or a differentpainful dignity, into squalor and politics.We honor those who let go of every-thing but freedom, who ran, who revolted, who fought,who became other by saving themselves.—Marge Piercy, MaggidSeverus Snape, hurled out of the unkind nineties and back into the Age of Aquarius, looks back to the future and can't be having with this BS.

I don't usually prefer to post multiple chapters at once, but rough times need something.And that something is not Severus Snape at his most carefully formal. I promise this relaxes after he signs off. n,n;;First chapter title from Success by William EmpsonAll other titles from Maggid by Marge Piercy.