Message #133569

[Bianca]

Today I live in a castle, as I deserve.

Modern visitors flock to my side in this cozy museum at Kyrenia, Cyprus, yearning to glimpse my now-glamorous curves.

I have starred in several television shows, appeared in books and magazines, put my face on a new Euro coin, and dazzled surfers on some ocean called the Internet.

In my honor, two full-scale replicas have taken sail, assuring my legacy as though this old lady of the sea had given birth at last.

And, best of all, I finally heard the good news that Demetrius never did capture my home port of Rhodes. I suppose it’s fitting that instead of his great warships, the envy of the age, a little Rhodian tramp like me is the one survivor to be seen today.

Poor Demetrius never won a kingdom on land by conquering the sea, but I sure did
— castle and all.