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Olympus (Greece) (search for this): card 1372
The Parricide departs, and the dithyrambic poet Cinesias arrives.
Cinesias
Singing.
“On my light pinions I soar off to Olympus; in its capricious flight my Muse flutters along the thousand paths of poetry in turn ...”
Pisthetaerus
This is a fellow will need a whole shipload of wings.
Cinesias
Singing.
“... and being fearless and vigorous, it is seeking fresh outlet.”
Pisthetaerus
Welcome, Cinesias, you lime-wood man! Why have you come here twisting your game leg in circles?
Cinesias
Singing.
“I want to become a bird, a tuneful nightingale.”
Pisthetaerus
Enough of that sort of ditty. Tell me what you want.
Cinesias
Give me wings and I will fly into the topmost airs to gather fresh songs in the clouds, in the midst of the vapors and the fleecy snow.
Pisthetaerus
Gather songs in the clouds?
Cinesias
'Tis on them the whole of our latter-day art depends. The most brilliant dithyrambs are those that flap their wings in empty space and are clothed in mist and dense obscurity