Great Moments in Literature #6
Oh my god:
Be pleased then, you, the living, in your delightfully warm bed, before Lethe's ice-cold wave will lick your escaping foot.
-- Goethe, Roman Elegies
Lethe: In Greek mythology, one of the rivers of Hades whose waters will cause complete forgetfulness.
I must read Goethe.
(I found the line from a review of You, The Living.)
