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Cloud Cuckoo Land by Antonius Diogenes, Folio Ψ

Debate continues over the intended location of Folio Ψ in Diogenes’s tale. By the time it was imaged, deterioration had progressed so far across the leaf that over eighty-five percent of the text was affected. Translation by Zeno Ninis.

… I woke…

… ·[found myself?]·…

… down from that high place…

… crawled in the grass, the trees…

… fingers, toes, a tongue to speak!

… the smell of wild onions…

… dew, the ·[lines?]· of the hills,

… sweetness of light, moon overhead…

… the green beauty of the ·[broken?]· world.

… would wish to be like them… a god…

… ·[hungry?]·

… only a mouse quivering in the grass, in the ·[mist?]·

… the mild sunshine…

… falling.