I told Tantalus to go chase a doughnut.
"He mentioned it!" one of the ghosts whimpered.
I didn't understand how. But the toilets had responded to me. I had become one with the plumbing.
Oh, my dear! I’m afraid you’ve mistaken me for someone else! My name is Rhea Silvia. I was the mother to Romulus and Remus, thousands of years ago. But you’re so kind to think I look as young as the 1950s.
It blew my mind that this stuff had survived for two thousand, three thousand years.
i remembered the myth about Andromeda and how she had been chained to a rock by her own parents as a sacrifice to a sea monster. Maybe she'd gotten too many F's on her report card or something.