“Life is short, and Art is long,” so begins Hippocrates “Aphorisms,” which could be the greatest take away from his complete body of work.
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Mrs. Eastman introduced me to The Odyssey in tenth grade. She handed us the classic Fitzgerald translation. The exciting twists and turns of the plot enticed me. I felt enthralled with Odysseus’s adventures with the sirens, slipping past Polyphemus, the bone crunching Cyclops who was blinded by Nobody, his swimming between Charybdis and man eating Scylla.
What book would you take with you if you were stranded on a desert island?