Odyssey Funmaries #14: Wandering Rocks (Book XII.LXI-LXXX)

Posted on June 11, 2009 by voreblog

by BEN VORE Today’s Funmary takes us backward in chapter 12, to Circe’s speech to Odysseus after he has ascended from Hades but before he encounters the Sirens, Scylla & Charybdis and the Oxen of the Sun (coming tomorrow!). The text amounts to a mere 19 lines, and yet Jerry Grit has chosen these lines [...]

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Odyssey Funmaries #7: Cyclops (Book IX.LXXI-DCXXX)

Posted on June 4, 2009 by jerrygrit

By JERRY GRIT Here we have the worst house guests in all antiquity vs. the worst host, in a competition for last. Odysseus continues his tale of sorrow to the nagging Phaeacians (who aren’t letting the poor guy go). After fleeing the Lotus Dopers, and still way off course, his fleet of twelve ships runs [...]

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Odyssey Funmaries #6: The Lotus Eaters (Book IX.I-LXX)

Posted on June 3, 2009 by voreblog

by BEN VORE Those of you still reeling from yet another pastel color-coded schedule should take comfort in today’s assignment for The Lotus Eaters, an episode from The Odyssey which merits — wait for it — a whopping 25 lines. Thus, this funmary is going to have three primary objectives: Detailed exploration of margin settings [...]

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Odyssey Funmaries #5: Nausicaa (Book VI)

Posted on June 2, 2009 by jerrygrit

By JERRY GRIT The events of this next book play out like an eighties sitcom. Odysseus washes up on the Phaeacian shore after Poseidon tries to kill him with another storm. He’s also butt-naked, that’s how strong the storm was. While Odysseus recovers on the shore, Athena goes to Nausicaa, the young daughter of the [...]

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A Word About Our Moderator

Posted on May 20, 2009 by voreblog

By BEN VORE As an active recruiter for (and humble participant in) Wandering Rocks, I have found myself answering the same question from would-be participants: Who is this jerrygrit? And would he be on my side in a bar fight? (Also, why does he hate Ayn Rand and like to key Mazda Miatas?)  While I [...]

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    • p318 Follow LB out of library. BM continues insults, SD silently follows. Thinks of end of Cymbeline, lines about peace through compromise. 1 year ago
    • p317 BM begins play. They pass by LB! BM greets him. SD wants to leave BM. BM calls LB the wandering jew. SD recalls dream about dark man. 1 year ago
    • p316 BM criticizes SD for not being diplomatic in reviews of books by well-placed people. BM begins to recite his play about masturbation. 1 year ago
    • p315 Following singing self-amused BM out of library, SD thinks of Shakes, that Ann really the betrayer. BM mocks Irish ambition for new art 1 year ago
    • p314 Asked if he believes own argument, SD says he doesn't believe (period). Inner turmoil ensues. BM makes fun, asks SD to leave with him. 1 year ago
    • p313 SD imagines Shakes death after a life of seeing self in world and reproducing it in work. BM begins writing play. Theory gets reduced. 1 year ago
    • p212 Obsession with a usurping bro and banishment recur in Shakes plays. Shakes more than just ghost and prince, but in all his betrayals. 1 year ago
    • p211 SD recalls own forgotten bros. Tires of debate. Argues although bros names historical, Shakes' choices guided by his own obsessions. 1 year ago
    • p210 SD ponders name as fate, is questioned about own name, the failed artificer. Recalls failed flight to Paris. Talk returns to bros. 1 year ago
    • p209 The text becomes the play BM brain-birthed, debate turns to how Shakes used bros names for villains, Ed & Rich. "Will" used a signature 1 year ago

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