 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. 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. The shoulder girdle and pectoral muscles were heavy and out of proportion, of course, yet the females had only one pair of breasts. My Hera, you're properly married to Zeus. Volpla wisdom would become a cult—and of all forms of comedy, cults, I think, are the funniest.
 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