For with my own eyes I saw the Sibyl hanging in a bottle, and when the young boys asked her, ‘Sibyl, what do you want?’, she replied, ‘I want to die’ .
Petronius
Orion's Cold Fire
All the Secrets of the Universe and Some Really Important Stuff Too!
All the Secrets of the Universe and Some Really Important Stuff Too!
For with my own eyes I saw the Sibyl hanging in a bottle, and when the young boys asked her, ‘Sibyl, what do you want?’, she replied, ‘I want to die’ .
Petronius
Immortality, perceived as a blessing by mortals, is too often a curse.
(What three wishes would you ask for your worst enemy?)
{I would wish him: Immortality; Immobility; and Insomnia!}
You have to wonder who were these poets who came up with these strange myths.