In Andalucia, near the Villa Romana de el Ruedo. The place is associated with Hypnos, God of Sleep, and twin brother of Thanatos, making him literally "Death's second self, that seals up all in rest." Their parents were primordial deities, Darkness and Night. Hypnos married one of the Graces, Pasithea, whose name means Relaxation. She bore him three sons: Dreams, Nightmares, and Illusions.

​

“What Garp was savoring was the beginning of a writer’s long-sought trance, wherein the world falls under one embracing tone of voice. All that is body is coursing waters, Garp remembered, all that is of the soul as dreams and vapors.”

​

            - John Irving: The World According to Garp. Garp is thinking of something Marcus Aurelius said.