‘Because We're Pawliniy We're Maltese'—A Contested Commemoration

She is—if you care for the word—a spirit, constrained to live in Xaghriet Mewwija. The inhabited plain; the peninsula whose tip is Valletta, her domain. She nursed the shipwrecked St Paul—as Nausicaä and Odysseus (Thomas Pynchon, V: 461)