<span>The men sent by Odysseus to investigate the land they had landed upon became forgetful after eating Lotus plants.</span>
In mark twains piece of literature, the invalids story, irony is repeatedly used
- they don't want to get sick from the smell, but they eventually get sick from the coldness
- dramatic irony; the responder knows that a bag of cheese was left on the box, but the two men in the train don't know this
