All Confessions Are Odysseys.

True Stories Deal With Hunger, Imaginary Ones With Love.

To Have One's Own Story Told By A Third Party Who Doesn't Know That The Character In Question Is Himself The Hero Of The Story Being Told, That's A Technical Refinement.

It Doesn't Seem To Me That Anyone Has Discovered Much That's New Since The Iliad Or The Odyssey.

We Have Gotten Away From This Double Aspect Of Either Putting The Character Back Into Historical Events Or Of Making A Historical Event Of His Very Life.

The Iliad Is The Private Lives Of People Thrown Into Disorder By History.