Drinking from the River Lethe causes what?
River Lethe in popular culture future Roman heroes drinking from the River Lethe. "The drink the soothing fluid and long forgetfullness" Emily Dickinson mentions the "Lethe" in her poetry (#1730 by Thomas Johnson editing). Dan Simmons' Hyperion contains a chapter titled "The River Lethe's Taste is Bitter", so named because the daughter of main character of the chapter suffers from a malady which causes her to age backwards, thus forgetting her life and family one day at a time. In Rick Riordan's novels, The Heroes of Olympus series and the short story Percy Jackson and the Sword of Hades in The Demigod Files reference and
River Lethe in popular culture "Ariel". For example, both "Amnesiac" (21 October 1962) and "Getting There" (6 November 1962) reference the river: "Getting There" ends with the lines "And I, stepping from this skinOf old bandages, boredoms, old facesStep up to you from the black car of Lethe,Pure as a baby." while the final stanza of "Amnesiac" ends with "O sister, mother, wife,Sweet Lethe is my life.I am never, never, never coming home!" The river Lethe is mentioned in Allen Ginsberg's poem "A Supermarket in California". "Ah, dear father graybeard, lonely old courage-teacher, what America did you have when Charon quit poling his ferry and