This is one of my favourite comments on female vanity (recalled to mind by my last post about a celebrated depiction of the Trojan War). It's by the early 20th Century Irish writer, Lord Dunsany, something of a pioneer in the genres of horror and fantasy... but much wittier than most who plough that furrow.
"And were you pleased?" they asked of Helen, in Hell.
"Pleased?" replied she. "When all Troy's towers fell;
And dead were Priam's sons, and lost his throne;
And such a war was fought as none had known,
And even the gods took part; and all because of me alone?
Pleased?
I should say I was!"
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
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