The Iliad by Homer
Translated by Robert Fagles, from his Introduction:

"The gods are immortal; they are not subject to time. They have all the time in the world. And so they are not subject to change, to the change brought by age, to the change brought by learning from suffering and a realization of limitations. They will always be what they are now ( Read more... )

I just read an article and want to immortilize part of it here. So let's go back to the basics for a minute. It's interesting to see some post year 2000 numbers. Everything that follows is taken from said text (short of my evil comments of course, hihi ( Read more... )

He heads south into the fog. The world swirls in around him, and his mind begins to leak and stretch and give - gusts of fog like the breath of some great god bank each side of the road-- and in the whiteness of his own breath mixing with the cold dense air, he can see the things that used to be: his boyhood on Nomans Land, the stiff green light ( Read more... )