" Exalted daughter of Zeus,” I said, “I beg you, say the magic incantation to deliver me from this form into another, so that I might fly to the city in the clouds where all needs are met and no one suffers and every day shines like the very first days at the birth of the world.” “What in the world are you braying about?” asked the goddess, "

― Anthony Doerr , Cloud Cuckoo Land