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These words, & more, within his room he spake/
And begged his lady, in his grief, profound/ Some recognition of his love to make/ And wept salt, tears in which he nearly drowned/ But all in vain, for not a single sound/ She heard, not being present to do so/ Which made his grief a thousandfold to grow.

Not sure if this stanza was meant to be funny or ironic, but it literally made me laugh out loud. 10/10, Chaucer!

Seems thematic to finally read this, now than I’ve finished the Iliad and the Odyssey.

“Menelaus stabbed his forehead above his nose, right at the bridge, and broke his skull, and popped his eyeballs out.”

JFC, what the fuck??

They really need to stop aiming for the nipples with their spears, it’s getting to be too much.

They keep talking about their nipples and it’s making me so upset. 😩

Thus ends Book II.

Am I… am I supposed to dislike Thersites? He seems like the only rational one in the bunch so far.

Okay, I know it’s ancient times, but Achilles weeping and sobbing to his mommy that the other Greeks took his prisoner away from him has me rolling my eyes so hard that I think I saw my brain.