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Liv Reads Homer: The Odyssey Book I

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Liv Reads Homer: The Odyssey Book I

Friday, 18th September 2020
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0:10

Hello, this is let's

0:12

talk about myths, baby, and

0:15

I am here on this momentous

0:18

day. I'm way too

0:20

excited about this. It's

0:22

time. I've been reading Homer and

0:24

somehow have got through the whole Iliad,

0:27

which really just shows how long this pandemic

0:29

has been going on. But that's okay, that's

0:31

okay. It also shows how enjoyable

0:33

it has been to read Homer, even

0:36

if it's a shitty old translation by

0:38

an incredibly conservative, old white

0:40

man, it's still fun

0:42

and it's legal. And

0:45

today, oh my gosh, today,

0:47

it's finally time. It's time

0:49

for me to start the one I care about

0:51

more than anything in this world. Oh my

0:53

god, how I love the Odyssey. This will be like

0:55

the fourth or fifth translation I've read.

1:00

Now. As much as I've been reading the Iliad episode

1:02

straight using the Roman names

1:04

for the gods, I can't bring

1:06

myself to do it for my main man um

1:09

So I will not be calling him Ulysses because

1:11

that's not his name. Everything

1:14

else I'm just going to keep Roman because it's too much

1:16

effort while I'm reading otherwise. But Odysseus,

1:19

oh, I'm calling him Odysseus. So,

1:22

without further ado, this

1:26

is Homer's Odyssey, translated

1:28

by Samuel Butler. Book

1:31

one, Tell

1:34

me, oh, muse of that ingenious

1:36

hero who traveled far and wide,

1:38

after he had sacked the famous town

1:40

of Troy. Many cities did he

1:42

visit, and many were the nations with whose

1:45

manners and customs he was acquainted.

1:47

Moreover, he suffered much by sea

1:50

while trying to save his own life and

1:52

bring his men safely home. But

1:54

do what he might, he could not save his men,

1:57

for they perished through their own sheer

1:59

folly in eating the cattle of the

2:01

sun god Hyperion. So

2:05

the god prevented them from ever reaching

2:07

home. Tell me to about

2:09

all these things, oh daughter of

2:11

Jove, from whatsoever source

2:13

you may know them. So

2:16

now all who escaped death in battle

2:18

or by shipwreck had got safely home

2:20

except Odysseus, and

2:22

he, though he was longing to return to

2:24

his wife and country, was detained

2:27

by the goddess Calypso, who had

2:29

got him into a large cave and wanted

2:31

to marry him. But as years went

2:33

by, there came a time when the

2:35

gods settled that he should go back to Ithaca.

2:38

Even then, however, when he was among

2:41

his own people, his troubles were not

2:43

yet over. Nevertheless, all

2:45

the gods had now begun to pity him,

2:47

except Neptune, who still

2:50

persecuted him without ceasing and

2:52

would not let him get home. Now

2:55

Neptune had gone off to the Ethiopians,

2:58

who are at the world's end and in

3:00

two halves, the one looking west

3:02

in the other east. He had gone there

3:04

to accept a hecatomb of sheep and

3:06

oxen, and was enjoying himself

3:08

at his festival. But the other

3:10

gods met in the house of Olympian Jove,

3:13

and the sire of gods and men spoke

3:15

first. At that moment,

3:18

he was thinking of a geist this, who had

3:20

been killed by Agamemnon's son Orestes.

3:23

So he said to the other gods, See

3:26

now, how men lay blame upon

3:28

us for what is, after all, nothing but

3:30

their own folly. Look at a geist

3:33

this. He must needs make love to Agamemnon's

3:35

wife unrighteously, and then kill

3:38

Agamemnon, though he knew it would

3:40

be death for him, for I sent

3:42

Mercury to warn him not to do either of

3:44

these things, inasmuch as Orestes

3:46

would be sure to take his revenge when he

3:48

grew up and wanted to return home.

3:51

Mercury told him this in all good will,

3:53

but he would not listen. And now he

3:55

has paid the price for everything in full.

3:59

Then Minerva's said, father,

4:01

son of Saturn, king of Kings.

4:03

It served ageist this right, and so it would

4:05

anyone else who does as he did. But

4:07

Ageistus is neither here nor there. It

4:10

is for Odysseus that my heart bleeds

4:12

when I think of his sufferings in that lonely

4:15

sea gird island, far away,

4:17

poor man, from all his friends.

4:19

It is an island covered with forest in

4:21

the very middle of the sea, and a goddess

4:24

lives there, daughter of the magician

4:26

Atlas, who looks after the bottom

4:28

of the ocean and carries the great columns

4:31

that keep heaven and earth asunder. This

4:34

daughter of Atlas got hold of poor,

4:36

unhappy Odysseus, and keeps

4:38

trying, by every kind of blandishment

4:40

to make him forget his home, so that

4:42

he is tired of life and things

4:44

of nothing. But how he may once

4:47

more see the smoke of his own chimneys.

4:50

You, sir, take no heed of this. And

4:52

yet when Ulysses was before Troy,

4:54

did he not propitiate you with many

4:57

a burnt sacrifice. Why

4:59

then, should keep on being so angry

5:01

with him? And Jove

5:04

said, my child, what are you talking

5:06

about? How can I forget Odysseus

5:08

than whom there is no more capable man

5:11

on earth, nor more liberal in

5:13

his offerings to the immortal gods that

5:15

live in heaven. Bear in mind, however,

5:17

that Neptune is still furious with Odysseus

5:20

for having blinded an eye of Polyphemus,

5:22

King of the Cyclops, Polyphemus

5:24

his son to Neptune by the Nymphosa, daughter

5:27

to the sea King Forcus. Therefore,

5:29

though he will not kill Odysseus outright,

5:31

he torments him by preventing him from

5:33

getting home. Still, let us lay our

5:35

heads together and see how we can help him to

5:37

return. Neptune will then be pacified,

5:40

for if we are all of a mind, he can hardly

5:42

stand out against us. And Minerva

5:45

said father, son of Saturn, king

5:47

of Kings. If then the gods

5:49

now mean that Odysseus should get home,

5:51

we should first send Mercury to the Ogygean

5:54

island to tell Calypso that we

5:56

have made up our minds and that he is to return

6:00

in the meantime, I will go to Ithaca to put

6:02

heart into Odysseus's son Telemachus.

6:05

I will embolden him to call the Achaeans

6:07

and assembly, and speak out to the suitors

6:09

of his mother Penelope, who persist

6:12

in eating up any number of his sheep and

6:14

oxen. I will also conduct

6:16

him to Sparta and to pee Loss, to see

6:18

if he can hear anything about the return of

6:20

his dear father, for this will make people

6:22

speak well of him. So saying,

6:25

she bound on her glittering golden sandals,

6:28

imperishable, with which she can fly

6:30

like the wind over land and sea. She

6:32

grasped the redoubtable bronze shod

6:35

spear, so stout and sturdy and

6:37

strong, wherefore she quells the

6:39

ranks of heroes who have displeased her.

6:42

And down she darted from the topmost

6:44

summits of Olympus, where on forthwith

6:46

she was in Ithaca at the gateway

6:49

of Odysseus's home, disguised

6:51

as a visitor mentees chief of

6:53

the Taffians, and she held a

6:55

bronze spear in her hand. There

6:59

she found the lordly suitors seated

7:01

on hides of the oxen which they had killed,

7:03

and eaten and playing drafts. In front

7:06

of the house. Men's servants and

7:08

pages were bustling about to wait upon

7:10

them, some mixing wine with water in

7:12

the mixing bowls, some cleaning

7:14

down the tables with wet sponges and laying

7:16

them out again, and some cutting up

7:19

great quantities of meat. Telemachus

7:22

saw her long before anyone else did.

7:24

He was sitting moodily among the suitors,

7:26

thinking about his brave father and

7:28

how he would send them flying out of the house

7:30

if he were to come to his own again and be honored

7:33

as in days gone by. Thus brooding

7:35

as he sat among them, he caught sight of

7:37

Minerva and went straight to the gate, for

7:40

he was vexed that a stranger should be kept

7:42

waiting for admittance. He took her right

7:44

hand in his own and bade her give him her spear.

7:47

Welcome, said he to our house, and

7:49

when you have partaken of food, you shall tell

7:51

us what you have come for. He

7:54

led the way as he first spoke, and Minerva

7:56

followed him. When they were within, he took

7:58

her spear and at it in the spear stand

8:01

against a strong bearing post, along

8:03

with the many other spears of his unhappy

8:06

father, and he conducted her to a

8:08

richly decorated seat, under which he

8:10

threw a cloth of damask. There

8:13

was a footstool also for her feet, and

8:15

he set another seat near her for himself,

8:17

away from the suitors, that she might not be

8:20

annoyed while eating by their noise and insolence,

8:22

and that he might ask her more freely about

8:25

his father. A

8:27

maid servant than brought them water in a

8:29

beautiful golden ewer, and poured

8:31

it into a silver basin for them to wash

8:33

their hands, And she drew a clean table

8:36

beside them. An upper servant

8:38

brought them bread and offered them many good

8:40

things of what there was in the house. The

8:42

carver fetched them plates of all manner of meat,

8:44

sin, set cups of gold by their side,

8:47

and a man servant brought them wine and poured

8:49

it out for them. Then the suitors

8:51

came in and took their places on the benches

8:53

and seats. Forthwith men's servants

8:56

poured water over their hands. Maids

8:58

went round with the bread baskets, pages

9:00

filled the mixing bowls with wine and water,

9:03

And they laid their hands upon the good things

9:05

that were before them. As soon as they

9:07

had had enough to eat and drink. They wanted

9:09

music and dancing, which are the crowning

9:11

embellishments of a banquet. So a servant

9:14

brought a liar to Femius, whom

9:16

they compelled to perforce to sing to them.

9:20

As soon as he touched his lyre and

9:22

began to sing, Telemachus spoke low

9:25

to Minerva, with his head close to

9:27

hers, that no man might hear. I

9:51

hope, sir, said he, that you will not be

9:54

offended with what I am going to say. Singing

9:56

comes cheap to those who do not pay for

9:58

it, and all this is done at a cost of one

10:00

whose bones lie rotting in some wilderness,

10:03

or grinding to powder in the surf. If

10:06

these men were to see my father come back

10:08

to Ithaca, they would pray for longer

10:10

legs rather than a longer purse. For

10:12

money would not serve them. But he alas

10:15

has fallen on an ill fate. And

10:17

even when people do sometimes say that he

10:19

is coming, we no longer heed them.

10:22

We shall never see him again. And

10:24

now, sir, tell me, and tell me true,

10:27

who are you, and where you come from?

10:29

Tell me of your own town and parents, what

10:32

manner of ship you came in, how your

10:34

crew brought you to Ithaca, and of

10:36

what nation they declared themselves to

10:38

be, For you cannot have come by land.

10:41

Tell me also truly, for I want to know.

10:43

Are you a stranger to this house? Or have you been

10:45

here in my father's time? In the old

10:47

days we had many visitors, for my father

10:50

went about much himself. And

10:52

Minerva answered, I will tell

10:54

you truly, and particularly all about

10:56

it. I am Mente, son of Kilas,

10:59

and I am king of the Taffians. I

11:01

have come here with my ship and crew on

11:03

a voyage to men of a foreign tongue,

11:06

being bound for Tamisa with a cargo

11:08

of iron, and I shall bring back copper. As

11:10

for my ship, it lies over yonder

11:12

off the open country, away from the town,

11:15

in the harbor wreath thrown under

11:17

the wooden mountain neritum. Our

11:20

fathers were friends before us, as old

11:22

Laertes will tell you if you go and ask

11:24

him. They say, however, that he never

11:27

comes to town now, and lives by himself

11:29

in the country, faring hardly, with

11:31

an old woman to look after him and get his dinner

11:33

for him when he comes in tired from

11:35

pottering about his vineyard. They told

11:38

me your father was at home again, and that was

11:40

why I came. But it seems the gods

11:42

are still keeping him back, for he is not dead

11:44

yet on the mainland. It is more likely

11:47

he is on some sea girt island in

11:49

mid ocean, or a prisoner amongst

11:51

savages who are detaining him against

11:53

his will. I am no prophet,

11:55

and no very little about omens. But

11:57

I speak as it is born upon me from

12:00

heaven, and assure you that he will

12:02

not be away much longer. For he

12:04

is a man of much resource, that even

12:06

though he were in chains of iron, he would

12:08

find some means of getting home again. But

12:11

tell me, and tell me true. Can Odysseus

12:14

really have such a fine looking fellow for

12:16

a son. You are indeed wonderfully

12:18

like him about the head and eyes. For

12:20

we were close friends before he set

12:22

sail for Troy, where the flower

12:25

of the Argives went. Also since

12:27

that time we have never either of us seen

12:30

the other. My

12:32

mother answered, Telemachus tells

12:34

me, I am son to Odysseus. But it is

12:36

a wise child that knows his own

12:38

father, would that I were son

12:40

to one who had grown old upon his own

12:42

estates. For since you ask me, there

12:45

is no more ill starred man under

12:47

heaven than he who they tell me is my

12:49

father. And Minerva

12:51

said, there is no fear of your race

12:53

dying out yet, while Penelope has

12:55

such a fine son as you are. But

12:58

tell me, and tell me true, what is

13:00

the meaning of all this feasting? And who are

13:02

these people? What is it all about?

13:04

Have you some banquet? Or is there a wedding

13:06

in the family? For no one seems to be

13:08

bringing any provisions of his own. And

13:11

the guests, how atrociously they

13:13

are behaving, What riot they make

13:15

over the whole house? It is enough to

13:17

discuss any respectable person who comes

13:19

near them, Sir, said

13:22

Telemachus, as regards your question,

13:24

So long as my father was here, it was well

13:27

with us and with the house. But the gods

13:29

and their displeasure have willed it otherwise,

13:31

and have hidden him away more closely

13:34

than mortal man was ever yet hidden. I

13:36

could have borne it better, even though he

13:38

were dead, if he had fallen with his

13:41

men before Troy, or had died

13:43

with friends around him when the days of his fighting

13:45

were done, For then the Achans would

13:47

have built a mound over his ashes. And I

13:49

should myself have been heir to his renown.

13:52

But now the storm winds have spirited

13:54

him away. We know not whither he is

13:56

gone, without leaving so much as a trace

13:59

behind him. And I had harrot nothing but dismay.

14:02

Nor does the matter end simply with grief

14:04

for the loss of my father. Heaven has laid

14:06

sorrows upon me of yet another kind.

14:08

For the chiefs from all our islands, Deliquium,

14:12

Sammy, and the woodland island of Zacynthus,

14:14

as well as all the principal men of Ithaca

14:17

itself, are eating up my house under

14:19

the pretext of paying their court to my

14:21

mother, who will neither point blank say

14:23

that she will not marry nor yet bring matters

14:26

to an end. So they are making havoc

14:28

of my estate, and before long we'll

14:30

do so also with myself. Is

14:33

that's so exclaimed, Minerva,

14:35

Then you do, indeed, one odyssee his home again,

14:38

give him his helmet and shield and a couple

14:40

of lances. And if he is the man he

14:42

was when I first knew him in our house, drinking

14:45

and making merry, he would soon lay

14:47

his hands about these rascally suitors,

14:49

where he to stand once more upon his

14:51

own threshold. He was then

14:54

coming from Ifia, where he had been

14:56

to beg poison for his arrows from

14:58

Illis, son of murmur Us. Illis

15:00

feared the ever living gods and would not give

15:03

him any, but my father let him have some,

15:05

for he was very fond of him. If

15:07

Odysseus is the man he then was, these

15:09

suitors will have a short shrift and a sorry

15:11

wedding. But there

15:14

it rests with Heaven to determine whether he

15:16

is to return and take his revenge

15:18

in his own house or no. I would,

15:20

however, urge you to set about trying to

15:22

rid of these suitors at once. Take

15:25

my advice. Call the Acayan heroes

15:27

in assembly tomorrow morning, lay

15:29

your case before them, and call Heaven to

15:31

bear you witness. Bid the suitors

15:33

take themselves off, each to his own place.

15:36

And if your mother's mind is that unmarrying

15:38

again, let her go back to her father, who

15:40

will find her husband and provide her with all

15:42

the marriage gifts that so dear a daughter may

15:45

expect. As for yourself, let

15:47

me prevail upon you to take the best ship

15:49

you can get with the crew of twenty men,

15:52

and go in quest of your father, who has

15:54

so long been missing. Some one

15:56

may tell you something or and his

15:58

people often hear things in this way. Some

16:00

haven't sent message may direct you first

16:03

go to p Loss and ask nest or vns.

16:06

Go on to Sparta and visit Menelais,

16:08

for he got home last of all the Accayan's.

16:11

If you hear that your father is alive and on his

16:13

way home, you can put up with the waste

16:16

these suitors will make for yet another twelve

16:18

months. If, on the other hand, you hear

16:20

of his death, come home at once, celebrate

16:23

his funeral, rites with all du pomp,

16:26

build a barrow to his memory, and

16:28

make your mother marry again. Then,

16:30

having done all this, think it well

16:32

over your mind, how by fair means

16:35

or foul you may kill these suitors

16:37

in your own house. You are too old

16:39

to plead infancy any longer. Have you

16:41

not heard how people are singing orestes

16:44

as praises for having killed his father's

16:46

murderer a geese this you are

16:48

fine, smart looking fellow. Show

16:50

your metal then, and make yourself a name

16:53

in story. Now, however,

16:55

I must go back to my ship and to my

16:57

crew, who will be impatient if I keep them

16:59

way longer. Think the matter over

17:02

for yourself, and remember what I have

17:04

said to you, sir,

17:06

answered Telemachus. It has been very

17:08

kind of you to talk to me in this way,

17:11

as though I were your own son, and I

17:13

will do all you tell me. I

17:15

know you want to be getting on with your voyage,

17:17

but stay a little longer till you have taken

17:19

a bath and refreshed yourself. I

17:21

will then give you a present, and you shall

17:23

go on your way rejoicing. I will

17:25

give you one of great beauty and value, a

17:28

keepsake such as only dear friends

17:30

give to one another. Minerva

17:32

responded, do not try to keep me,

17:35

for I would be on my way at once. As

17:37

for any present, you may be disposed to make

17:39

me keep it till I come again, and I

17:41

will take it home with me. You shall

17:43

give me a very good one, and I will give you one

17:46

of no less value in return. With

17:48

these words, she flew away like

17:50

a bird into the air. But she had

17:53

given Telemachus courage and had

17:55

made him think more than ever about his father.

17:58

He felt the change, wondered at

18:00

it, and knew that the stranger had been

18:02

a god. So we went straight to where

18:04

the suitors were sitting. Phemius

18:07

was still singing, and his hearers sat

18:09

wrapped in silence as he told the sad

18:11

tale of the return from Troy

18:14

and the ills Minerva had laid upon

18:16

the Achaeans. Penelope,

18:18

daughter of Acarius, heard his song

18:21

from a room upstairs, and came down

18:23

by the great staircase, not alone,

18:26

but attended by two of her handmaids.

18:28

When she reached the suitors, she stood by

18:30

one of the bearing posts that supported the roof

18:33

of the cloisters, with the staid maiden on

18:35

either side of her. She held a veil

18:37

moreover before her face and was

18:39

weeping bitterly. Phemius,

18:42

she cried, you know many another

18:45

feat of gods and heroes, such as poets

18:47

love to celebrate. Sing the suitors

18:49

some one of these, and let them drink their wine

18:52

in silence. But cease this sad

18:54

tale, for it breaks my sorrowful

18:56

heart and reminds me of my lost

18:58

husband, whom my morn of her without

19:00

ceasing, and whose name was great

19:03

all over Hellas and middle Argos.

19:07

Mother answered Telemachus, let

19:09

the bards sing what he has a mind to. Bards

19:12

do not make the ills they sing of. It

19:14

is Jove, not they who makes them, and

19:16

who sends weal or woe upon mankind

19:18

according to his own good pleasure. This

19:21

fellow means no harm by singing the

19:23

ill fated return of the Dannians, for

19:25

people always applaud the latest songs

19:27

most warmly. Make up your mind to

19:29

it and bear it. Odysseus is not

19:31

the only man who never came back from Troy,

19:33

but many another went down as well as he.

19:36

Go. Then within the house, and busy yourself

19:38

with your daily duties, your loom, your

19:41

distaff, and the ordering of your servants.

19:43

For speech is a man's matter, and

19:45

mine above all others, for it is

19:47

I who am master. Here she

19:51

went, wandering back into the house and

19:53

laid her son, saying in her heart. Then

19:56

going upstairs with her handmaids into her

19:58

room, she mourned her dear husband,

20:00

till Minerva shed sweet sleep over

20:03

her eyes. But the suitors were

20:05

clamorous throughout the covered cloisters,

20:07

and prayed each one that he might be

20:09

her bedfellow. Then

20:12

Telemachus spoke shameless,

20:14

He cried and insolent suitors,

20:17

let us feast at our pleasure

20:19

now, and let there be no brawling. For

20:21

it is a rare thing to hear a man with

20:24

such divine voice as Phemius

20:26

has. But in the morning meet me in full

20:28

assembly, that I may give you formal notice

20:30

to depart and feast at another's

20:32

houses, turn and turn about at

20:35

your own cost. If, on the

20:37

other hand, you choose to persist in springing

20:39

upon one man, Heaven help me. But

20:42

Jove shall reckon with you in full, and

20:44

when you fall in my father's house, there

20:46

shall be no man to avenge you. The

20:50

suitors bit their lips as they heard him,

20:52

and marveled at the boldness of his speech.

20:55

Then, Antinuous, son of you pities,

20:57

said, the gods seem to have even

21:00

you lessons and bluster and tall talking.

21:02

May Jove never grant you to be chief in Ithaca

21:05

as your father was before you, Telemachus

21:08

answered, and tinous, do not chide

21:11

with me, But God willing, I will be chief

21:13

too if I can. Is this the worst

21:15

fate you can think of? For me? It is

21:17

no bad thing to be a chief, for it brings

21:19

both riches and honor. Still,

21:22

now that Odysseus is dead, there are many

21:24

great men in Ithaca, both old and young,

21:26

and some others may take the lead among them.

21:29

Nevertheless, I will be chief in my own house,

21:31

and will rule those whom Odysseus

21:33

has won for me. Then,

21:35

Eurymachus, son of Polybus, answered,

21:38

it rests with Heaven to decide who shall

21:41

be chief among us. But you shall be master

21:43

in your own house and over your own

21:45

possessions. No one while there is

21:47

a man in Ithaca, shall do you violence

21:49

nor rob you. And now, my good

21:51

fellow, I want to know about this stranger.

21:54

What country does he come from, or what family

21:56

is he? And where is his estate? Has he

21:58

brought you news about the return of your father?

22:01

Or was he on business of his own? He

22:03

seemed a well to do man, but he hurried off

22:05

so suddenly that he was gone in a moment before

22:07

we could get to know him. My father

22:09

is dead and gone, answered Telemachus.

22:12

And even if some rumor reaches me, I put

22:14

no more faith in it. Now. My mother

22:16

does, indeed sometimes send for a soothsayer

22:18

and question him, But I give his prophesyings

22:21

no heed. As for the stranger, he

22:23

was meant to son of Anchialus, chief

22:25

of the Taffians, an old friend of

22:27

my father's. But in

22:29

his heart he knew that it had been the

22:31

goddess The suitors

22:34

then returned to their singing and dancing until

22:36

the evening. But when night fell,

22:38

upon their pleasuring, they went home

22:40

to bed, each in his own abode. Telemachus

22:44

room was high up in a tower that looked

22:46

out onto the outer court. Hither then

22:48

he hied, brooding and full of thought.

22:51

A good woman, Eurycleia, daughter

22:53

of Ops, the son of Pisonore,

22:55

went before him with a couple of blazing

22:58

torches. Laerties had bought

23:00

her with his own money when she was quite young.

23:02

He gave the worth of twenty oxen for her,

23:05

and showed as much respect to her in his household

23:07

as he did his own wedded wife. But

23:09

he did not take her to his bed, for he feared

23:12

his wife's resentment. She it was

23:14

who now lighted Telemachus to his room, and

23:17

she loved him better than any of the other

23:19

women in the house did, for she had

23:21

nursed him when he was a baby. He

23:23

opened the door of his bedroom and sat down

23:26

upon the bed. As he took off his shirt,

23:28

he gave it to the old woman, who folded

23:30

it tidily up and hung it for him

23:32

over a peg by his bedside, after

23:35

which she went out pulled

23:37

the door by a silver catch, and drew

23:39

the bolt home by means of the strap.

23:42

But Telemachus, as he lay covered

23:44

with a woolen fleece, kept thinking

23:46

all night through of his intended

23:49

voyage and of the council that Minerva

23:52

had given him.

24:06

Oh there it is, my wonderful

24:08

friends, the first episode of

24:11

the Odyssey. Fine.

24:13

Is it a little boring? Yes? Is

24:16

Telemachus a little dink? Yes?

24:19

Is he the worst to his mother? Oh?

24:21

God, absolutely, but thankfully,

24:25

Well, it won't be too long until we reach

24:27

my main man, h

24:29

the adventurer himself, all the

24:32

absolutely ridiculous, nonsensical

24:34

things he gets up to. Oh disse

24:37

yes, thank you all for listening. You're

24:39

the best. This is so much fun. I

24:42

am living. I love this ship.

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