Leda And The Swan

A sudden blow: the great wings beating still

Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed

By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill,

He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.

How can those terrified vague fingers push

The feathered glory from her loosening thighs?

And how can body, laid in that white rush,

But feel the strange heart beating where it lies?

A shudder in the loins engenders there

The broken wall, the burning roof and tower^[20]

And Agamemnon dead.

Being so caught up,

So mastered by the brute blood of the air,

Did she put on his knowledge with his power

Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?

The Book And The Brotherhood - pg. 520

'Absolutely,' said Duncan. 'He was terribly intense and solemn at Oxford. He and Levquist got on famously, Levquist had no sense of humor either. I think he got completely soaked in Greek mythology and never recovered. He lived all the time inside some Greek myth and saw himself as a hero.'

'Perhaps the Greeks had no sense of humor.'

'Precious little. Aristophanes isn;t really funny, there's nothing in Greek literature which is funny in the way Shakespeare is. Somehow the light that shone on them was too clear and their sense of destiny was too strong.'

List of Titans

				The Twelve Titans:
				Oceanus and Tethys,
				Hyperion and Theia,
				Coeus and Phoebe,
				Cronus and Rhea,
				Mnemosyne, Themis,
				Crius, Iapetus