User:Voninnenheraus

The ecclesiastical history of Socrates (6th century AD) claims that both Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius were bishops. There is no actual disproof of this statement, but it has been suggested that the episcopal title was attached to the names in order to make their works respectable reading for Byszantine monks, who were exceptionally fond of the novels apparently and had many more to read than the few that survived. "That poeme de le'estase? Put it on loud. His music sounds like I think - sometimes has that far-off cosmic itch. Divinely fouled up. The first time I heard it I played it over and over (...) it was like a bath of ice, cocaine and rainbows. For weeks I went about in a trance. Something had happened to me. (...) got a bird, the sweetest gentlest bird imaginable. "Think it out!" he would chirp."