On rare occasions 1000 words will say far more than a picture. Jorge Luis Borges' short story House of Asterion is an example of this. House of Asterion is a monologue by the minotaur in the labyrinth of Knossos, Crete. It may be read as a story about the profound loneliness of a freak of nature, or as an investigation of the mindset of tyrannical power.