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There and back again, again: Homerific boredumb
The Ancient Greeks consider Homer’s Illiad their greatest literary achievement. Modern Greeks know as well as anyone else that while we all play the game of being savvy, cultured literates, the damn book is more tedious than a drive across the plains with your mother-in-law’s aunt Gertrude who is adamant the station not be moved from her favourite whining evangelist. The Illiad’s successor , the Oddessy has been acclaimed as a “modern-bestseller” and new translations crop up ever ten years or so.
Well, one wants to at least appear cultured and intellectual at parties so I am reading the Oddessy. However, unwilling to fork out over 30 bucks for something new I visited my local used and rare and I’m on page 202 of the 365 page 1946 E.V. Rieu translation published by Penguin Classics; I am bloody bored out of my skull. Would that Scylla would come and eat me alive with any one of her six slavering maws or Cyclops stare me into a puddle of mush and relieve me of spineless Telemachus and his father whose willing to be the human prostitute of any god that will have him.
From the back cover here’s high praise with my slightly less complimentary notes in parenthesis: “with its well-knit plot [meet another god, receive another impossible to accomplish challenge and overcome it to meet another god, receive another impossible challenge...] its psychological interest [of the kind that is well below the interest created in Hitchcock's Psycho or The Birds] and its interplay of character [gods have sex with humans who alternate between making many boring speeches ad nauseum or are disemboweled as the so called plot crawls toward some predictable heroic conclusion].”
I really wanted to like this book. I wanted to have read one of the greats but as I’ve done so much skimming I think I might as well just go to http://www.mythweb.com/odyssey/ and find out how the damn thing ends.
I’m not big on the ‘other’ Homer either.
Solution for unwanted Credit Card Payments
In another life I allowed myself to get suckered by this online money making thing. OK, let’s just call it what it is Passport to Wealth. When I quit they kept charging my CC the monthly fee that the b’tards said would be easy to cancel. Talk about money for nothing. Then the easiest thing in the world occured to me – I reported my card “lost or stolen.” Try and get the money now creeps.
[Inane Note: not that as many as three people care but having just begun this blog I must now be away until Tuesday June 24. Use you brain if spammers appear try to take over.]
{First post} Should I quit blogging?
People often write about quitting their blog on their blog. Who cares? Quit. So, it seemed appropriate to begin this new blog by asking the most inane blogging question that can be asked: Should I quit blogging?
