Dear Q.

Bless you for your note. Of course they rejected the application – now even M. is claiming my ‘idea’ is harming the department’s reputation. The scurrying little beetle, spending his life searching for signs of the definite and indefinite in Latin.

Still, he is going to Pompeii while I sit in my broom cupboard! The board says there is no evidence, which is bull –  the cult sits clearly in the corner of my eye. As it adherents intended.

Yet they were not completely successful. We have Drusus meeting a nameless woman in Germania and being told to leave Germania. The Masonite fragment which I foolishly subscribed to a Christian cult. Now the Erdstall tunnel.

Add to this the strange altar of Ulysses, mentioned by Tacitus. If we stretch our minds, we can imagine the Greeks sending their greatest explorer to discover the hidden resting place of this ‘enemy of the gods’.

And what better place to hide than beyond the Rhine? If only I had the resources, freedom to travel across the Elbe, find where Drusus’s nameless woman stood. There must be more signs, more clues to her whereabouts.

If only I had the money, I would go. I am not the first to search for her, but – by the gods –  I will be the first to see her rest eternal.  Nil Desperandum my friend.

Yours as always,

L.