House of Asterion
—Jorge Luis Borges (From Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings, ed. Donald A. Yates and James E. Irby) And the queen gave birth to a child who was called Asterion. —Apollodorus Bibliotecha III, I I know they accuse me of arrogance, and perhaps misanthropy, and perhaps of madness Such accusations (for which I shall exact punishment in […]