Mixtapes

Audio / Video files of songs mentioned in this story are collected here.


He no longer listens to the words of the song 
('I would I were where Helen lies ...') 
partly because he knows them too well and 
partly because he does not believe in them. 



When he first commanded Sing!  the Roman girl went forward to the step of the doorway, simply, as to the footlights, and began to sing the 
"Canto dei Malfattori.'


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