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'-well, in Homer you never hear words like Agamemnon thought, or Nestor remembered, or Odysseus reflected, and so on. In Ancient Greek epic, characters express themselves strictly through action or through speech. It's not as if the Ancient Greeks didn't think, remember, or reflect, but in their epics they chose not to reveal this interior life-'

GENIUS WRITING and I already love this book

'Now I'm in a strange house with a man. All those ancestors with their hands in mine, with their mouths and their tears. They're in my heart I know.'

plot twist!!!

'It's really hard to do nothing totally. Even just sitting here, like this, our bodies are churning, our minds are chattering. There's a whole commotion going on inside us.'

Re-reading a childhood fave. 'In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.'