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I'll let anything pass if we get the story where Odysseus gets exiled from Ithaca for killing the suitors, goes to Italy, co-founds Rome with Aeneas, gets turned into a horse by Circe's apprentice 'Salt' (Hals), and dies as an aged quadruped.

Thank you!

That description matches the one I'm looking at -- thank you! I should have mentioned it switches to prose _after_ the opening invocation in verse ...

It starts off with a few lines of verse and then breaks into prose after the proem. (At least, in the copy I'm looking at.)

I mean, they've got the same potential as any villain. With new writers, new modes of storytelling, the possibilities are endless.

It's just that ... they don't evoke good memories. I mean, memories of good past stories.

Well, at least there's room for that to improve!

I get the sense he feels more Peruvian than Chicagoan nowadays. Maybe they could try offering deep-dish ceviche. Or then there's this...