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Dec. 4th, 2009 07:08 pmI was going to post about the Iliad, but right now I'm squeeing because I actually have an internet connection on my laptop. I've been using my roommate's computer and work computers for the last ten years.
I can actually chat again. How do I do that again? I haven't done it since the days of ICQ.
And yes - the Iliad is very, very good. The stuff about Achilles and Patroclus is very sweet, the battles are brilliant and ingeniously described, the stuff about the gods is beautiful, and descriptions of funerals and ceremonies was rich and wonderful. I'm glad I read it.
But I still help but be disappointed, because almost nothing I expected - the Trojan Horse, Achilles' Heel, the Judgement of Paris - was actually there. Nobody had warned me. It was strange to get to the end of Book 24, and Achilles was still alive and Troy unburnt.
I can actually chat again. How do I do that again? I haven't done it since the days of ICQ.
And yes - the Iliad is very, very good. The stuff about Achilles and Patroclus is very sweet, the battles are brilliant and ingeniously described, the stuff about the gods is beautiful, and descriptions of funerals and ceremonies was rich and wonderful. I'm glad I read it.
But I still help but be disappointed, because almost nothing I expected - the Trojan Horse, Achilles' Heel, the Judgement of Paris - was actually there. Nobody had warned me. It was strange to get to the end of Book 24, and Achilles was still alive and Troy unburnt.