All 4 Uses of
Hercules
in
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Can't you just picture Hercules' broom sweeping out this cathedral?†
Chpt 3 *
- He thought he heard a voice telling him to seize Hercules' broom and sweep all of Marie-Claude's previews, all of Marie-Anne's singers, all lectures and symposia, all useless speeches and vain wordssweep them out of his life.†
Chpt 3
- He felt like a rider galloping off into a magnificent void, a void of no wife, no daughter, no household, the magnificent void swept clean by Hercules' broom, a magnificent void he would fill with his love.†
Chpt 3
- Just before disappearing from his horizon, she had slipped him Hercules' broom, and he had used it to sweep everything he despised out of his life.†
Chpt 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(Hercules) mythological Roman hero famous for his strength and for performing 12 immense labors to gain immortality
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)