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Trickster Travels: The search for Leo Africanus, By Natalie Zemon Davis

<p> This is how Sylvia Plath put it, hard and clear, in her last poem, &quot;Edge&quot;: &quot;The woman is perfected./ Her dead/ Body wears the smile of accomplishment,/ The illusion of a Greek necessity/ Flows in the scrolls of her toga,/ Her bare/ Feet seem to be saying:/ We have come so far, it is over..&quot; Dead indeed. The bare feet suggest the slab, which makes &quot;toga&quot; only a fine word for a morgue shroud. And knowing what we do, about what the poet herself was about to do, we can't help reading these lines as an imaginary, anticipatory self-portrait, post mortem. The cause of death and of &quot;the smile of accomplishment&quot; is suicide. </p>

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