Odyssey Books VIII-XII

I liked this passage. I was especially glad to have gotten the full of Ulysses's story. It was very blurry up to that point, and all I had known was that Neptune was mad at Ulysses and Ulysses had been trapped with Calypso. But out of all my reading, I couldn't keep my mind off the gruesome description with Cyclops, or Polyphemus. First disturbing paragraph, "The cruel wretch vouchsafed me not one word of answer, but with a sudden clutch he gripped up two of my men at once and dashed them down upon the ground as though they had been puppies. Their brains were shed upon the ground, and the earth was wet with their blood." It still went deeper into disturbingness, but I don't want to be reminded of anything more. It was also disturbing when they were twisting the peg into his eye! This isn't right, it's down-right disturbing - people had too much fascination with violence back then, a sick obsession and I hate it! I suppose people still find entertainment in violence, but this isn't right. If it's this disturbing with Cyclops/Polyphemus, I'm not sure the death of suitors will be so nice either. . . This has lowered my judgment of this book, and I'm downright angry at it right now.

Revelation of note!!!

I tried to comment on people's posts on my older, windows XP computer, but it kept denying access to comment. However, I did it on a modern windows 7 laptop and it worked! Hooray!

Books 5-7

This was really good! But I have some annoyances and questions. The gods keep guiding people and telling fates, but at other times it is stated that they have no control over humans. So do they have control on humans or not? And gods in this are so human-like that they reproduce, fall in love, etc. with humans!? That's pretty weird. . . But probably the most annoying, simple thing, is how rosy-fingered Dawn keeps appearing, every morning. So only dawn gets to take the form of a goddess? That's so unfair and annoying! Why can't their be ashy-fingered night, or orangey-fingered evening, or dandeliony-fingered evening! Plus, why does it have to be the fingers? It seems like it would be rosy-cheeked, or something along the lines of that! Also, what is a nymph? I've recollected (or what ever the word is) that a nymph is some sort of inferior, evil god or goddess, but that's just an inference - what really is a nymph? From all what I know, it's just some sort of bug here on earth, but what is it in Greek /Roman mythology? One last thought - what's going to happen for the last hundred or so pages if Ulysses is so close to getting home already? No spoilers, Josie and Ethan! (I don't think I used any periods - just exclamation points, question marks and multiple periods in a row. . . gosh, my fingers are numb!)

WHOOPS! Books 2-4

This reading was better than book I - I didn't know I had to post about my reading specifically last week - and it was very revealing. My main questions would have to be about the geography of everything - all the different places are hard to keep track of, and it would really help if there was some sort of map to help me. The good thing is, I figured out this is definitely greek mythology with some weird roman names scattered about. These books showed the story to be a very good poem. I just kind of find it odd that there are books within a poem instead of poems in a book, like an anthology. Not much else happened to take increasing note of that I can think of at the time.

NaNoWriMo

I'm doing just barely decent in getting a thousand words in a day to meet my 30,000 word goal. . . is there any way that this can be a more efficient process???????????????????????