Day Three Hundred and Sixty Three
So I spent all day yesterday working on potty-training Alex. We had almost zero success, went through six pairs of underwear, 17 rags and half a bottle of Windex. I think we’ll keep trying today, but it just sounds exhausting.
On a more literary note (not that Homer didn’t need to be potty-trained…) it seems that there is a fierce debate raging…or will be if I have anything to do with it. Which is your favorite The Iliad or The Odyssey and why? I vote Iliad because there are more eyeballs rolling in the dust and guts uncoiling and scrambled brains. You?
While were on the subject of preferences: I’m a huge fan of the Fitzgerald translations now. I’ve read the Pope translations before and really do appreciate the language (in Pope the eyeballs “brast” out of their heads) but theFitzgerald just flows. Next up, learning Greek…after I follow through on my ambition to learn Latin…
December 30th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Good luck with Puppy.
Hum…the eyeballs rolling sounds interesting…but isn’t that an odd reason for it to be your favorite?
December 30th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
I prefer the Odyssey. The only reason I can think is that it was the first of the two that I read. It was too long ago, too. I’ll have to read them again.
I’m away for the New Year and may not be near a PC (yes, believe it or not, even today this can happen), therefore Mandi, if you reach your target, and I expect you will, congratulations on a brilliant achievement and a very happy New Year!
Richard
December 30th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
You could just get him a catheter. If he turns out to be a gamer it will be an asset later in life.
December 30th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Brent, you are disgusting and hilarious.
Oh, and I love how you link back to your blog WHICH HASN’T BEEN UPDATED SINCE EARLY FEBRUARY!!!
December 30th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Learning the other language can give you please and challenge~~good thing!! I now studying German,hard, but interesting~~~
March 1st, 2009 at 11:52 pm
Probably because I wasn't forced to read it during a youthful summer when I'd just bought a fresh stack of Archie's Digest comix, I actually like the Aeneid a lot better than either of Homer's works. True, he just apes the story of the Odyssey, then indecorously introduces an Iliad-like conflict, but it all somehow works for me.