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The Silence of the Sirens Franz Kafka Proof that inadequate, even childish measures, may serve to rescue one from peril. To protect himself from the Sirens Ulysses stopped his ears with wax and had himself bound to the mast of his ship. Naturally any and every traveler before him could have done the same, except those whom the Sirens allured even from a great distance; but it was known to all the world that such things were of no help whatever.