The Week They Stopped Getting Away With It

You’re familiar with the Furies, yes? The terrifying goddesses of vengeance in Greek mythology who rise up from hell to torment the wicked? The divine and find out that follows mortal fuck-aroundery? The greatest revenge manual of all time—the Oxford English Dictionary—describes them as follows: “avenging deities … dread goddesses with snakes twined in their hair, sent from Tartarus to avenge wrong and punish crime: in later accounts, three in number (Tisiphone, Megæra, Alecto).” Superhuman life-ruiners, in other words. Tisiphone holds you down; Megæra and Alecto go to work. They’ve got box-cutters forged in the fires of Olympus and they…