The Rebirth of Pan

eed to talk to him. I try to move towards him, but the crowd is in the way. Soon I stop, surrounded by people. I can't move or see him any more. Was that magic? I shake my head and scuff my feet in the yellow dust. I'm still confused. I don't know what to trust, I'm not even sure what's real. One of the ubiquitous old women in black is standing near me, tears streaming down her face. "He will rise again!" she is repeating over and over to a bawling child. I don't think so, madam. I really don't think so. Not this time. But I don't feel safe until I get the news on Monday morning that he is still dead. 2. LORD OF THE VINE A world is more than days and place and folk a world is dreams and vision, thought and word a living thing that breathes, and grows and dies and once the thread is cut will wake no more. Yanni was not the best shoemaker on the island of Ithyka, but he was the one who made sandals for the gods. Ithyka was an island famed throu