All I can suggest, and probably
it will do no good, is to ignore
the gods. Let's give up on the
costly sacrifices to beseech
a mercy that no longer exists.
I shalliustrate myself for
them no more.
That evening after Euparchus
had gone something began to
itch at the back of my bad
memory. Hadn't I once seen
a denigration of the gods in
the kollemata of Tantalus
of Sidon in the Palatine
Library at Heidelberg? My
memory is unreliable, but
hadn't Tantalus written
something like this?
at
OE
"\jJuxat alrtwv
~~xavaL
dot
a,,-,,-~,,-OLC;
eni 'taL£ oLa<j>8ELQLaLC;
~oovat£
"Their souls were only instruments
of each others' dissolute pleasures."
MARK RUDMAN
Role Play
(after Horace,
Odes,
Book 1, 4, and 37)
1. On location. Set off from real life by an artificial
world yet part of life - ?
2. The set: a lovesick empire in the heat
during the long shoot in the Spanish hills.
