Article: The geese.(poem)

In the evening, at the suggestion of Orpheus, they beached the ship at Samothrace, the island of Electra, daughter of Atlas. He wished them, by a holy initiation, to learn something of the secret rites, and so sail on with greater confidence across the formidable sea. Of the rites I say no more, pausing only to salute the isle itself and the Powers that dwell on it, to whom belong the mysteries of which we must not sing.

Apollonius of Rhodes, JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS

Translated by E. V. Rieu

On a brittle winter afternoon in Moscow, the American, Houdini, was professionally stripped and searched, then manacled, and then locked in an eyesore ...