Scylla
Michael Hofmann, 20 October 1994
“... after Metamorphoses, Book VIII I knew about Helen, they kept selling me Helen, but I never even got to be stolen in the first place. Sieges are boring – did you know. Everything’s fine, just each day’s a little bit worse than the last. And you start thinking how long it is since you saw prawns or a nice pair of earrings or a magazine ... ”