Poseidon mural. Downtown Ilwaco, Washington.
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"This triplicity of authorship—Muse, Homer, Odysseus—together with the duplicity of the chief actor, makes the Odyssey the most complexly told tale I know. It is complicated though not bottomless, but rather clear and decodable. The abysmal infinities of romantic irony are not the Muses' way."
—page 120, "The Poet of the Odyssey," Homeric Moments: Clues to Delight in Reading the Odyssey and the Iliad by Eva Brann
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