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We all have a list of books that we'll tackle "some day." Well . . . some day is here.
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Classical literature traditionally started with a prayer to the Muses. Perhaps the most famous at the beginning of the Odyssey. At the very beginning of James Joyce's Ulysses, the character Buck Mulligan echoes the Invocation that starts the Odyssey, using instead the following words from the Latin mass: "Introibo ad altare dei (or "I will go the altar of God.") |
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