I am learning so many word roots though and the mythology is obviously cool
just OHHH MY GOD I HATE ODYSSEYUS AS MUCH AS I THOUGHT I WOULD
I have read his fucking name 387447388874 times and I still screw it up!! MORE BEEF FOR THE BEEFIN WITH ODYSSEUS PILE
hahha okay I like him a little bit
searching bookstores for a copy of the Wilson translation cuz I’m gettin into it and it’s all FITZGERALD AND POPE AND NO NO NO I WANT THE PLAIN LANGUAGE VERSION THATS AS MANY LINES AS THE ORIGINAL
telemachus just left ithaca and so far wilson is a great translation for my ruined 21st century brain. but i’m thinking i might absorb it better as a deck of powerpoint slides
wily odysseus, lord of lies has got me. i love this book the wilson translation finally made it readable for me. also i keep running around yelling at people about xenia now so ive learned one word
i cant believe odysseus yelled TWICE at the fucking cyclops. stop tempting fate!!! you are responsible for your men!! CANT YOU LEAVE WELL ENOUGH ALONE???
like miguel gave me a pair of leather work gloves to take home and i was like HELL YEAH THATS GOOD XENIA
I’m gonna start reading it again now that I’m done with the Torah. I wonder what comparisons I’ll be able to make
Once you learn handy Greek words for certain concepts it is impossible not to keep using them. All us nerds really aren’t trying to be assholes about it we just can’t help it
Why y’all keep talking about the Ohio city that Gummo takes place in (theoretically; there’s so much in that movie that is so obviously not Ohio, but whatever).
“Tornados treat their guests well” should be the tagline on the Gummo poster.
read book two aloud to my sweet fella, and now i feel i’m stuck in speaking meter. what fun!
But let us, you and I,
sit in my cottage over food and wine,
and take some joy in hearing how much pain
we each have suffered. After many years
of agony and absence from one’s home,
a person can begin enjoying grief.
odysseyus has made it home as a little gremlin man and i still have so much book left! getting back into the habit of reading is hard but rewarding but also ughhh my stupid brain im in the middle of five books now. ONE AT A TIME. JEEZ. FINISH BASTARD ODYSSEYUS AND HIS SELFISH JOURNEY FIRST
I mean it’s pretty good eh
i cant stop thinking about dawns rosy fingers now
Me and the homies are always talking about the wine-dark sea
i didn’t realize it got multiple mentions!! i’m so hype. take a shot
it’s fucked up that I can’t find a clip of Nick Nolte in The Thin Red Line talking about rosy-fingered dawn over the radio to the captain he’s abusing
Whenever I chose warriors to ambush
our enemies, I never thought of death.
I leapt out far in front, and ran to catch them
and spear them. That was how I was in war.
I did not like farmwork or housekeeping,
or raising children. I liked sailing better,
and war with spears and arrows, deadly weapons.
Others may shudder at such things, but gods
made my heart love them. People’s preferences
are different.
yelped at Nestor being like “if you came to visit for five years to hear all we’ve suffered … you’d get bored and leave”
Another Argument
Zeta
Here olive leaves
T’hide shame began.
The maid receives
The naked man.
