Good essay. Achilles is also the first philospher. His speeches about how he doesn't care about glory and gold all that stuff and will just go home to his farm and his women and to hell with Agamemnon and this war are wonderful, and were back then subversive to an extent it is hard for us to fathom.
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Interrupt all you like. We're involved in a complicated story here, and not everything is quite what it seems to be.
—Paul Auster
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