river nymph

Daphne and Winona’s toxic relationship seems to be the trigger for Daphne’s transformation, as is the case in the Greek myth, when Daphne, a river nymph, prays for help escaping the predatory god Phoebus Apollo and is turned into a tree.

Others were said to have been hung by despairing Grecian suitors on the doors of their unrequited loves, these gestures of devotion and longing echoing Apollo’s own relentless pursuit of the river nymph Daphne, who was transformed into a laurel tree after pleading with her father, the river god Peneus, to rescue her.

The burgundy DS, with its space-age silhouette and directional headlights that follow the turning of the wheel, has curves as gentle as a Maillol river nymph.

The name “Lora” is short for Lorelei, the mythical river nymph who dressed in white, wore a wreath of stars in her hair and sang a song so alluring that no one could resist its pull.

Under this, was a verse, in imitation no doubt, of a poem they had read a few months before: "Oh, a river nymph to be, Nymph to be, Moonbeams shining full and free, Full and free, Glide along, and turn in glee, Turn in glee, Death to him who in will see, In will see, --No, that would be sin, lirum, larum, ba!--"