This god who represented reason and optimism, who was the god of poetry and music, sat there, a cold-faced stone image in an empty temple surrounded by crumbling stone columns. "
這位代表理性、樂觀、朗靜的，司掌詩歌和音樂的神祇，竟是一具冷面的石像，一座座由剝蝕石柱圍成的空洞的廟店」。