The words flowed like water--the water of Lethe." In Stephen King's novel "Rose Madder", Rose, in preparation for retrieving the title character's child from a labyrinth, is warned not to drink from the water from a river she must cross. Later in the story, a few drops of that water, mixed in a soft drink, is used to remove Bill's memories of the latter part of the book's events. In Piers Anthony's "With a Tangled Skein", Niobe accompanies her daughter and granddaughter on a quest to acquire an enchanted paint brush and a harp. During the quest, the trio must cross an illusory representation of the Lethe. Later, in Hell, Niobe must again cross a river, and wonders if it might be the actual Lethe. In Valeer Damen’s novel "KATABASIS", one of the main characters has to find and cross the river Lethe as a step in the process of entering the afterlife. “‘There is the plain. Transit. Like a battlefield. All the energy totals of actions and thoughts are there. Wind blows. Tests are there, functionaries, agents from above and below. Introduction functionary cannot help solve tests or help in final adjudication. In the end, river.’” (Damen, 21). In Virginia Woolf's novel "Orlando", the protagonist considers "drinking forgetfulness" from a meadow pool. In K. Madill's debut novel 'The Stolen Herd' Lethe is a naiad who lives in a lake at the Gates to the Underworld. In William Faulkner's novel "Go Down Moses" Lathe appears in chapter 1.2 of "The Fire and the Hearth". In William Shakespeare's play "Julius Caesar", Antony, on seeing the murderers' hands red with Caesar's blood, observes:  "Here didst thou fall; and here thy hunters stand,/Sign'd in thy spoil, and crimson'd in thy Lethe" (III.i.215). In William Shakespeare's play "Hamlet", Hamlet's father's Ghost says to the prince,  In "Antony and Cleopatra", Sextus Pompey talks of Antony's supposed military inertia, hoping that  "Epicurean cooks / Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite, / That sleep and feeding may prorogue his honour / Even till a Lethe'd dullness-" (II.i.24-27).