Being Or Nothing, That Is The Question.

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

There Have Been Only Rare Moments In History Where Individual Histories Were Able To Run Their Course Without Wars Or Revolutions.

The Poet Is Never Inspired, Because He Is The Master Of That Which Appears To Others As Inspiration. He Does Not Wait For Inspiration To Fall Out Of The Heavens Like Roasted Ortolans. He Knows How To Hunt...he Is Never Inspired Because He Is Unceasingly Inspired, Because The Powers Of Poetry Are Always At His Disposition, Subjected To His Will, Submissive To His Own Activity.

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.

Ulysses Finds Himself Unchanged, Aside From His Experience, At The End Of His Odyssey.