We're reading the Odyssey right now
Dec. 7th, 2015 04:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulyWell, I'm reading it to the girls, they're reading Percy Jackson.
I had no idea before how much of the Odyssey is "Telemachus tied up his shoes" or "So-and-so, son of What's-his-face, son of Somebody-else..."! But heaven forbid I compress a little.
"Connie! Did you just skip something?"
"Uh, no?"
"YES YOU DID! LOOK, YOU SKIPPED THIS ENTIRE PAGE!"
"It was filler!"
"We need ALL OF IT!!!"
Yeah, girls, you need every scintillating detail of who, exactly, is there to eat Telemachus and Penelope out of house and home.
I had no idea before how much of the Odyssey is "Telemachus tied up his shoes" or "So-and-so, son of What's-his-face, son of Somebody-else..."! But heaven forbid I compress a little.
"Connie! Did you just skip something?"
"Uh, no?"
"YES YOU DID! LOOK, YOU SKIPPED THIS ENTIRE PAGE!"
"It was filler!"
"We need ALL OF IT!!!"
Yeah, girls, you need every scintillating detail of who, exactly, is there to eat Telemachus and Penelope out of house and home.
