“With my own eyes
I saw the Sybil of Cumae hanging in a bottle;
and when the boys said to her, “Sybil, what do you want?”
she replied, “I want to die.”
Epigraph to “The Waste Land” by T.S. Eliot
linkThe Sybil of Cumae was a Greek prophetess who was granted a life of as many years as the number of grains of sand she held in her hand. The problem was, she neglected to ask for youth as well. Her body eventually withered away until only her voice remained.
