It is sung in word and myth that Vulcan, born, was so ugly his momma tossed him from a mountaintop, and he landed at the bottom of the sea. Vulcan was raised in an underwater grotto. Vulcan created fire in an underwater grotto down below the land mountains and he created lightning bolts, and fire and green jealous jewellery came from the green deep elsewhere. (Even mad Quixote wore addlepated armour and Vulcan invented armour in his smithy.) Velázquez’s art was to make Vulcan a man and his worker buddies men, and yet the bad news of betrayal came in a message in the shades of amber, ochre, sienna, charcoal, silver and humanity.
So, can a modern man get a Get Lost letter as in Vulcan? You bet he can. It happened. It happened to Alexi three years back in his metalworking garage in Toronto,
