"How then did Poseidon control the weather?
How then did Athena put thoughts into the minds of men,
control their waking and their sleep, take the shape of their friends,
give courage or invisibility?
But these are not my questions to answer.
As for me, like Odysseus, who was left to his own devices,
while the wrath of Poseidon delayed his return home for so many years,
I ask this question of Athena:
'Where were you?
Where were you when Virginia Dare was set on a Darwinian journey
God knows where?'"
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