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Classical Wisdom's avatar

One of my ALL TIME favorite first lines: ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, μοῦσα, πολύτροπον, ὃς μάλα πολλὰ -

Of course, the next question is: Which translation?? (I like Fagles: "Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns")

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Joel Bowman's avatar

A true epic! What if the Wilson translation, making our dear hero a “complicated” man?

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Classical Wisdom's avatar

I almost put that one...

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Buenos Aires Portal's avatar

“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.”

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Joel Bowman's avatar

Fear and Loathing? Classic! Who can read that sentence and NOT want to know what comes next?

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Earl Callison's avatar

"And what about you, Fellow Flâneur? Have you a favorite opener?"

"It can be deadly...the white light"

"It's the simple things in life that bind us together in our humanity."

Both from "the collection" by Ron Callison

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