 Why is it ironic that the narrator's wife refers to him as Zeus?
Yet I had always been so sure I could create them that I had been calling them volplas for ten years. I had called them volplas since the day old Nijinsky's elongated arms and his cousin's lateral skin folds had given me the idea of a flying mutant. Again in the laboratory, I entered the metabolic accelerator and withdrew the intravenous needles from my first volplas. It would be several hours before they would begin to move, to learn to feed and play, perhaps to learn to fly. I kissed her until I heard rollerskates coming across the terrace from one direction and a horse galloping toward the terrace from the other direction.
 He seems to think he's very important, and about as powerful
 The area they live in is compared to the Roman countryside, not anything Greek  He seems to think he's very important, and about as powerful  He identifies more closely with different figures in Greek mythology  She thinks he has too many children, similar to Zeus