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From a forthcoming choral libretto premiering in Finland to a graphic novel retelling of the "Epic of Gilgamesh," Macfarlane’s creative orbit keeps expanding.

Gilgamesh has a compound, which is intended, with some psychotherapy, to treat depression and anxiety.

Tales of the relentless pursuit of a romantic interest date back to antiquity, turning up in the Epic of Gilgamesh.

Flood stories live in the warp and weft of legends and religions and nations — Gilgamesh, Noah, the Greeks and Aztecs, the Norse and Native Americans.

What Perlin jokingly calls his “wood work” was inspired by a story from 5,000 years ago in southern Mesopotamia, recorded on a clay tablet as “The Epic of Gilgamesh.”