In this excerpt from book 12 of the odyssey. circle advises ulysses how to get past the sirens unharmed which theme is depicted in the excerpt

"the only completely stationary object in the room was an enormous couch on which two young women were buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon. they were both in white and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house."