"Aptness to purpose: one definition of beauty." --Ezra Pound.
Or, as a different caption:
THE MYTHS
Italy and Greece lay in ruins,
inhabited by beasts: the Minotaur
in his labyrinth,the scrush of his hide
against its walls; the blinded Cyclops
groping for Ulysses among the sheep.
Dad taught us all the myths.
Up on Mount Olympus
people disguised themselves
as animals. It was like that then.
It's not like that now.
Back then you were half animal
if your father was a god.
--Chase Twichell
from Dog Language
