Watching Homer Struggle

Watching Homer struggle to explain how a god wounded by a mortal cannot die but may thereafter live with minor pain and the humor when that god complains to Jove that His supervision of His daughter is inadequate and His Love too unconditional while Diomed (or Tydides) wreaks havoc on the Trojans and Hector gives it back (in kind) anatomically correct descriptions of spears piercing jawbones and groins sons without fathers hunting and fishing thereafter alone. Written amazingly presciently! as a metaphor for Vietnam (our war) forgotten consensually as this generation slips lazily away to Hades (on Huck Finn's raft) where the lights are always blue, gentian actually, supper's served at 4 and former adversaries pass the heavy hanging time playing pinochle (and pool). We're selling the house to pay the taxes. Pallas Athena wars among the men from the axle of her chariot and Venus is injured by Diomed, standing in the field of battle where she never should have been, in her adorable hand. What has this to do with Solomon in jail. Not the Jewish king, a black American male, same thing. Your children can be failed at school and marched to war. You can be taxed and sent to gaol for the honor of it. anyone lived in a pretty how town. We have no obligation to perform the Iliad or read poems and even Homer considers Achilles effete (compared to Hector) and Odysseus is wrong even when he's right. Therefore, modern man explores the mathematics of circles in coordinate planes and their tangents (when) (once) (soon) the secret of warp speed is discovered expansion of the species will be limitless and permanent.