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From A literal impression of Homer’s Odyssea from someone who’s literally heard it

© A. P. David 2022:

So he spoke, and she shrieked! Dear nurse Eurycleia;

And while she wept she addressed him lines with wings:

‘What’s the matter you, dear child, how’d this plan turn up

In your lungs? Where do you want to be going over the wide planet,

Only child as you are, …