I paraphrase the Dutch self-proclaimed
people's writer Gerard Reve:
Yes, boys and girls,
as you all may know,
Troy is not at all in Turkey.
No, all cuddly rabbits and
secretly tortured boys know
very well where Troy was situated.
In perfidious Albion.
In the Gog Magog hills.
You'll say isn't that in the Bible?
Yes, in Ezekiel and the Apocalypse.
But in the sixteenth century the hills
of Ditton Woods, south of Cambridge,
still were known as Gog Magog.
Yes, dear readers, perhaps, you're not
accustomed to be addressed like that...
But it turned out that Duckling Quack
and the Mute Swan as well as the brothers
Squirrel and Rabbit had thought that Time
would be Ripe to reveal the Truth that
the classical, or rather the pre-classical
stories, did not occur in the Mediterranean
region, but in the Celtic world, or rather
the pre-Celtic Europe on the Atlantic coast.
