The man and the woman found themselves in a library.
And they began opening the books. They scooped out
phrases like small stones and threw them out the
window. As each one landed on the ground or in the
water, or as it took flight, it grew into a being that could
inhabit this new world and populate its then, its now, and
its to-come.
First they made the past.
-"Deucalion and Pyrrha,"
Carla Nappi
Read the excerpt. How does Nappi's adaptation of the
myth differ from the original story?
O The characters re-create the past.
O The characters escape their new world.
O The characters return to their old world.
O The characters imagine the flood returning.