Double Tongue is the latest work by William Golding. The work is deceptively “historical,” deceptively “simplified for perception.” However, the story of the Delphic Pythia, painfully and acutely trying to understand her place in the world and her path in time and space, attracts the reader like a strange magnet. Attracts and holds in the microcosm of the text. Because maybe there are prophets in their own country, but the lot of the recognized ones is heavier than the fate of the persecuted...