[He does not know what a play is either, with the advent of Athenian tragedy so far beyond the horizon of his day, but although what he imagines is quite different from from Haise intends to convey, Achilles is enthralled nonetheless.]

I see - and so just as my words now reach your ears, and my form your eyes, although we sit not in one another's company, so too can bards reach audiences who sit not before them. How easily the tales of great men must spread.

Will you tell me your name, stranger? For while you know mine so well, I know not to whom I speak. You must have seen a great many of these film stories - what others do you know?