tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522590442951738.post8832437052181314239..comments2023-06-12T11:31:14.038-04:00Comments on Armored Assaults on Hot Fudge Sundaes: There is chaos under my blog, and the situation is excellent.Fionahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11488361241256661262noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522590442951738.post-76996975261704429212008-12-27T02:08:00.000-05:002008-12-27T02:08:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522590442951738.post-67442254150660768092008-12-26T15:14:00.000-05:002008-12-26T15:14:00.000-05:00i'm not gonna comment on the odyssey vs the iliad,...i'm not gonna comment on the odyssey vs the iliad, because, uhhh, truth be told, i've never read either of them all the way through (i got REALLY CLOSE with the iliad though!), but i wanted to say i've actually been really enjoying your blog! i'm way out of practice thinking like an english major and it feels good to be exposed to that again. plus, you guys are funny AND insightful.staciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07074500817534028528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522590442951738.post-2768540033394138062008-12-24T14:25:00.000-05:002008-12-24T14:25:00.000-05:00I have to be real: I've never read the Odyssey, an...I have to be real: I've never read the Odyssey, and I only made it halfway through the Iliad.<BR/><BR/>And I do find Sarah Vowell annoying from time to time. Mostly because I usually find her "humorous asides" way less interesting than the history she's telling. But I feel that way about all hip, popular, accessible history, and I almost never read the other kind of history.<BR/><BR/>But I also have to say, I like your blog partly because it is silly but also partly because it is super not silly... as I said to a friend recently "I can't believe it! They have full-time jobs! and they go out at night sometimes! I have no idea where they find the time to be so insightful about Beowulf (or now, the Odyssey) so many times a week! It's amazing!"annemariehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09085508754736560280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522590442951738.post-74770310860463018502008-12-22T21:20:00.000-05:002008-12-22T21:20:00.000-05:00I like the Odyssey significantly less than the Ili...I like the Odyssey significantly less than the Iliad, actually. I was just thinking about this today in the bookstore: The Odyssey is a just a romp, a story with an obvious goal, and in the end it's entirely, satisfactorily resolved. The Iliad is a political struggle and a great clash of human emotion, and nothing is all right in the end -- in fact, things are in many ways much worse than they began. It's poignant.<BR/><BR/>To be fair, I liked Julius Caesar best of all Shakespeare's plays, so clearly I prefer some politics complicating in my drama. I like the internal conflicts in these politicians with their agendas and their constituencies and their overblown feelings.Clarehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14988172431327505411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522590442951738.post-87623312472895145252008-12-22T18:10:00.000-05:002008-12-22T18:10:00.000-05:00Found a link to your blog from Picture Poetry (tha...Found a link to your blog from <A HREF="http://picturepoetry.wordpress.com" REL="nofollow">Picture Poetry</A> (that I found from who-knows-where).<BR/><BR/>I love the colloquial style here, and the subject matter, too. Even though I'm outclassed in several ways and don't have the free time to follow along in my own copies of the classics (but wish I did), I like projects like this.anniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08324828987699178581noreply@blogger.com