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name meaning thread weaver or duck (these may be guesses from obscurity) ten-year faithful wife whilst her husband was gallivanting round the islands deceiving the suitors by her shroud-unpicking or maybe not such a savoury dame having a high time with those after her favours allegedly allowing hermes up her skirts and becoming the mother of pan or even (when odysseus was killed) getting married to her own murdering son penelope seemed to have been good material for the greek tabloids (for which truth as always was something of a side-dish) and nowadays the long-suffering wife who kept her would-be lovers at bay with her deft (daft) needle has to be taken with the same load of salt her husband mixed in with his barley to prove how mad he was and not fit to be a hero – we can’t have celebrities who don’t get up to the wildest things to leaven our own dull lives i have a soft spot for penelope though a bit like a cricketer deserted by her own side having to play against eleven thugs from the next village - so adept with fingers and feet she could put herself about as the whole team - her skills at batting bowling fielding keeping score prodigious in the eyes of bemused suitors she’s the innermost feminine dream thread of life weaver of stories – the duck machismo gets bowled over and out for
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