just saw that someone is writing a sapphic retelling of the odyssey (ok cool love that energy) but hasn’t read the original odyssey (what the fuck)…
help.
ID: question and response in an interview that is as follows:
Q: Did you read The Odyssey? And if so, when?
A: I read a lot of stories within The Odyssey, because they’re in things like Percy Jackson, and those little books of mythology you get as a kid, but I actually started and finished writing without sitting down and reading the whole thing. I have various translations; there are parts that are very beautiful and readable, but its so long, and written in a ‘prose-y’ way that’s kind of impenetrable /end ID
writing a paper on pompeii and trying very very hard to not tear into the “brothels used frescos as sex menus” myth for too long because i have other stuff to write about also.
I can’t stop thinking abt jurgen leitner what an absolutely top-tier character. shitty old man who has been living in the basement of an office building for years undetected. he went outside once and immediately got beaten up by a goth so he doesn’t leave the basement anymore. then when he finally leaves again he gets bludgeoned to death literally immediately
