I want to be able to fly. I want to hover around you like a
winged Cupid in attendance on his Goddess.(1)
From The Golden Ass by Apuleius. Lucius here pleads with his lover, a witch’s apprentice, to steal a magical potion so that he can be transformed into a god. Instead, he is given the form of an ass and must submit himself to an existence as a loathsome beast of burden.
We live in a time and culture predisposed toward life at the surface. Ours is a society that privileges eternal youth and beau
