The cyclops fell into a drunken stupor

The title to this post is the first line I read when I opened a book I found that looked interesting. Without the use of a search engine, I'm sure nobody could figure out which book this came from.

"The nothing that is: A natural history of zero"

Not sure how it relates, though if the book is interesting enough to get to that point I'm sure it'll make sense eventually. What does a cyclops have to do with the number zero?