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<url><loc>https://livesteven.com/2026/07/23/cassandras-song-as-wif-of-purchase/</loc><news:news><news:publication><news:name>Steve_Bamlett_blog</news:name><news:language>en</news:language></news:publication><news:publication_date>2026-07-23T09:14:18+00:00</news:publication_date><news:title>Cassandra&#8217;s Song as &#8216;Wif of purchase&#8217;.</news:title><news:keywords>dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2831</news:keywords></news:news></url><url><loc>https://livesteven.com/2026/07/22/changing-the-ending-the-issue-is-not-with-books-so-to-speak-but-with-stories-where-changed-endings-are-only-one-form-of-a-work-which-must-exist-through-history-as-translations-versions-or/</loc><news:news><news:publication><news:name>Steve_Bamlett_blog</news:name><news:language>en</news:language></news:publication><news:publication_date>2026-07-22T20:14:58+00:00</news:publication_date><news:title>Changing the ending? The issue is not with &#8216;books&#8217;, so to speak, but with stories, where changed endings are only one form of a work, which must exist through history as &#8216;translations, versions, or adaptations of works&#8217; that involve &#8216;a conversation with an earlier writer&#8217;. Let&#8217;s choose, then, as so many have already done, a story where conversations with the original are &#8216;an encounter &#8230; across the span of two-and-a-half millennia&#8217;. Part One of an examination of three versions of &#8216;The Oresteia&#8217; before Simon Stone&#8217;s brilliant version: the Psychopolitical Orestes and Sartre.</news:title><news:keywords>dailyprompt, literature, books, history, philosophy, religion, existentialism, dailyprompt-2835, jean-paul-sartre, les-mouches, the-oresteia, the-flies, versions-translations</news:keywords></news:news></url></urlset>
