The crossroads are where Oedipus slew his father; where in Athens the pharmakos was burned as a human sacrifice to purify the sick society; where Hermes the Divine Trickster, he of the two faces, stood his erect cock pointing the wrong road to travelers; and where Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil to learn to play the blues guitar. Two roads both crooked, one rising into the woods to a ruined house, the other going you don't know where: Here at the crossroads you have a guide who has at heart only your getting lost.
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