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Perhaps, like the poet A. E. Housman in The Invention of Love, Stoppard — gone now at 88, the cause unspecified — stands at this moment on the banks of the River Styx, waiting for the old ferryman Charon.
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Sara Holdren, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
When dead animals start showing up around town, a superstitious ferryman claims he’s seen the Mansfield girls shapeshift into feral hounds.
—Shannon Carlin, Time, 22 May 2025
The name of the ferryman was Charon, a dark figure with fiery eyes, who required you to pay a toll.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 May 2025
Kentridge likens the captain to the ferryman, Charon, in Greek mythology transporting the dead across the river Styx to the underworld.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2025
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Sara Holdren, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
When dead animals start showing up around town, a superstitious ferryman claims he’s seen the Mansfield girls shapeshift into feral hounds.
—Shannon Carlin, Time, 22 May 2025
The name of the ferryman was Charon, a dark figure with fiery eyes, who required you to pay a toll.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 May 2025
Kentridge likens the captain to the ferryman, Charon, in Greek mythology transporting the dead across the river Styx to the underworld.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2025
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“Ferryman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ferryman. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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