Saturday, January 19, 2019

014 Trophonius

The entry on the chthonic deity Trophonius might mention another literary reference thereto: in Nicholson Baker's 1988 novel, The Mezzanine, the author described the imagined inner workings of an escalator to be "Trophonian."
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