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Started by dontblameyoko, December 23, 2008, 12:47:21 AM

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Shit like that happens when you immerse yourself in the I3 narrative.
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yes, i've finnally decided that instead of being irritated about it i'll lol instead.  and law of fives for 'find1 order2 in3 your4 chaos5' made me chuckle too.  i added that because they would've in the book and i wanted to try the superscript funtion.

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Quote from: Telarus on December 29, 2008, 04:41:57 AM
http://bkmarcus.com/blog/2008/09/telemachus-sneezed

QuoteUntil I started listening to Stanley Lombardo's translation of Homer's Odyssey, my primary association with the name Telemachus was from The Illuminatus! Trilogy, in which the Roberts Shea and Wilson make fun of Atlas Shrugged with a cult novel called Telemachus Sneezed. I thought that was a funny spoof title for the trippy spoof novel.

Imagine my surprise, a dozen years later, when I encounter this passage from the Odyssey, in which Penelope addresses a servant:

    "As for the suitors, let them take their pleasure indoors or out as they will, for they have nothing to fret about. Their corn and wine remain unwasted in their houses with none but servants to consume them, while they keep hanging about our house day after day sacrificing our oxen, sheep, and fat goats for their banquets, and never giving so much as a thought to the quantity of wine they drink. No estate can stand such recklessness, for we have now no Odysseus to protect us. If he were to come again, he and his son would soon have their revenge."

    As she spoke Telemachus sneezed so loudly that the whole house resounded with it. Penelope laughed when she heard this, and said to Eumaeus, "Go and call the stranger; did you not hear how my son sneezed just as I was speaking? This can only mean that all the suitors are going to be killed, and that not one of them shall escape.

Apparently, the ancients considered a sneeze to be a good omen.

(And, apparently, the ancients considered mass murder to make a happy ending.)

also

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telemachus

wow, great find!

I read that passage like a zillion times last year and never noticed that. I actually wrote a reading about that chapter for a 10th grade english-as-a-second-language textbook.

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Quote from: Telarus on December 29, 2008, 04:41:57 AM
http://bkmarcus.com/blog/2008/09/telemachus-sneezed

QuoteUntil I started listening to Stanley Lombardo's translation of Homer's Odyssey, my primary association with the name Telemachus was from The Illuminatus! Trilogy, in which the Roberts Shea and Wilson make fun of Atlas Shrugged with a cult novel called Telemachus Sneezed. I thought that was a funny spoof title for the trippy spoof novel.

Imagine my surprise, a dozen years later, when I encounter this passage from the Odyssey, in which Penelope addresses a servant:

    "As for the suitors, let them take their pleasure indoors or out as they will, for they have nothing to fret about. Their corn and wine remain unwasted in their houses with none but servants to consume them, while they keep hanging about our house day after day sacrificing our oxen, sheep, and fat goats for their banquets, and never giving so much as a thought to the quantity of wine they drink. No estate can stand such recklessness, for we have now no Odysseus to protect us. If he were to come again, he and his son would soon have their revenge."

    As she spoke Telemachus sneezed so loudly that the whole house resounded with it. Penelope laughed when she heard this, and said to Eumaeus, "Go and call the stranger; did you not hear how my son sneezed just as I was speaking? This can only mean that all the suitors are going to be killed, and that not one of them shall escape.

Apparently, the ancients considered a sneeze to be a good omen.

(And, apparently, the ancients considered mass murder to make a happy ending.)

also

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telemachus

thanks!  i'm pretty sure i read the wikipedia article, but i didn't know he actually sneezed in the Odyssey.
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