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Homer's (the blind man's) poetry XVII as seen by the waiter "Iliad I - Iliad II - Iliad III - Iliad IV - Iliad V - Iliad VI - Iliad VII - Iliad IIX - Iliad IX - Iliad X - Iliad XI - Iliad XII - Iliad XIII - Iliad IV - Iliad XV - Iliad XVI - Iliad XVII - Iliad XIIX - Iliad XIX - Iliad XX - Iliad XXI - Iliad XXII - Iliad XXIII - Iliad XXIV" "Iliad XVII"
XVII book seventeen As Zeus watches blood and tears flowing, he knows he has a winner. He shakes his head at the mortals, "Poor creatures, why did we give you King Peleus, a mortal doomed to death... ...so you could suffer the pain of wretched men?" Yet looking at hills of bodies slain and butchered, smelling in the sun, and here and there an armless body moving like a worm, disgusted he aims his spit at one of the nearby islands: "There is nothing alive more agonizing than a man's shell, who still breathes but crawls over reddened soil." And subsequently he orders a few of the bloodiest of the bloody scenes changed, the use of more tomato-juice and cuts, banning some of these earthworms from his celluloid. He obviously plans a PG version.
"Iliad I - Iliad II - Iliad III - Iliad IV - Iliad V - Iliad VI - Iliad VII - Iliad IIX - Iliad IX - Iliad X - Iliad XI - Iliad XII - Iliad XIII - Iliad IV - Iliad XV - Iliad XVI - Iliad XVII - Iliad XIIX - Iliad XIX - Iliad XX - Iliad XXI - Iliad XXII - Iliad XXIII - Iliad XXIV" 07/06/08
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