The Kinks - StarstruckHippomenes vs. Atalanta. Very rare anymore to see courtship conducted via foot race, but there you go, things were different in the old days. Hippomenes, confident in his knowledge that gorgeous young women love almost nothing more than metallic fruit, threw those golden apples off the path to distract Atalanta. What he lacked in endurance, quickness, and charm, Hippomenes made up for with guile, cunning, and a strong right arm. Atalanta, lissome, serious, ambitious, lost the race and consequently had to accede to Hippomenes's conditions: he won, so she had to love him, marry him, live with him. Damn those golden apples, she thought (on the day day of the race and every night for the rest of her life).[Buy The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society]