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100 Pages In - The Lost Books of the Odyssey by Zachary Mason Almost having Classics as my "third" major in college, my heart skipped a beat when I received a Google Alert about a new novel that revisits Homer's protagonist with a perspective similar to Calvino and Borges. Personally, I like revisionist history, partly because it nourishes my belief that history is more narrative than fact, mainly because it's just out right fun. For me, the stories I read did remind me of a cocktail of the Homer's Odyssey, Borges's A Garden of Forking Path, and Calvino's Invisible Cities, successfully decontextualizing, a la postmodernism, the Homeric tradition. So, as I approach The Lost Books of the Odyssey at 100 pages in, I am thoroughly entertained and find myself carefully, pleasantly navigating the Scylla and Charybdis of stories that composes Mason's book. While most of what I've read is great, not all of the stories hit their mark. Some stories end just

Lent 2010 This year instead of giving up one of my nagging vices , I'm giving up a debilitating behavior, procrastination . So, for Lent I'll write something a day, be it a haiku, flash fiction, or minimalist play. Let's see how I do this year. 1. Teeth working slower than tongue shoveling it all down trying to fill a bottomless pit 2. swaying back and forth between leathery creases and vacant screens that separate the East from the West 3. Dialectical Dialogue - Lent Litanies Adam: You only go where your lust takes you... Lilith: And that's why you'll love me until the end of time...hating yourself every pristine, endless second. 4. How to win her back... Dig for the puzzle pieces that will help you win her back, Find a frame to help you start understanding what when wrong, where you failed, Crumble bit by bit as the puzzle begins to take form piece by piece 5. Stages of Man - II Big black book, small hands Twain's prose sharpened the speartip of my budd