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  1. Public Bookmark 12

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    In which Sarmenti fails to want, ask for, or receive affection in a normal way, and Baldwin doesn't mind.

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    31 Aug 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 45

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    As Helen is rushed through the battlefield to Achaean ships, she spots a dying Paris among the slaughter, and she proposes something to her husband.

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    23 Mar 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 13

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    “You’re going to kill me,” Diomedes says one evening. There is still blood in his hair and up his arms and calves and splattered across his face and he’s kneeling all pretty and soft and sweet at his feet, gently unwinding the slippery leather straps, because his own hands shake and ache and tremble. He doesn’t look up as he says it, his gaze focused with that typical single minded determination.

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    31 Jan 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 25

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    In Book 23 of Homer's Iliad, the ghost of Patroclus returns to beg the grieving Achilles to bury him, so he can move onward into the Underworld. In the three "books" of this novella, Patroclus' experiences in the days following his death are described from his point of view, as he seeks to learn what he must do to move on, and builds an unusual friendship with Charon, the ferryman of Hades.

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    14 Jan 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 37

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    Of all people, when Odysseus goes to bed with Diomedes (more often, when he goes on a convenient mission or to an isolated strip of sand or into a dark corner of camp with Diomedes), he can’t avoid the fine thread of nausea at dishonoring him.

    Diomedes doesn’t act like Odysseus is, but still

     

    In the first year of the war, Odysseus and Diomedes pick up a past time.

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    30 Dec 2024