He leans forward, wafting sketos. "Yes. Symbolically. You are used to a world in which symbols are intangible things like the aristocratic titles of exiled princes, even if symbols and rumours are the governing currencies of your trade. But in the new Greece, symbols will be the actual truth. If you are devoured by your shark, your physical body will be torn apart, and the pieces will be swallowed. Watching from the Judaeo-Christian model, one might see a man cut up your body and feed it over the side of a boat. Or one might see a crowd of people each tear a piece from the corpse with their mouths. But that watcher would be wrong. He would be seeing what is not there, the ghost of an irrelevant way of being in the world. A way that is lifeless and foreign, like a fat burned-out German automobile with grass growing through the shell, in a field full of thoroughbred horses. The truth would be that a god ate you, because you were unfaithful."