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...The Victorian critic Samuel Butler even believed that a woman wrote the second poem, in which “the domestic and female interest . . . predominates greatly over the male”....
...Cartwright and her co-stars Dan Castellaneta (Homer), Yeardley Smith (Lisa) and Julie Kavner (Marge) crammed into a sound room with carpeted walls and shared a microphone....
...If I weren’t doing what I do, I would be a butler. It would give me huge satisfaction to run a great house....
...The French word for a wind turbine is “éolienne”, from Aeolus, the mythological keeper of the winds in Homer’s Odyssey, who first tries to help and then turns against Odysseus....
...” (The Iliad, Book 18, Butler translation)....
...Homer Thrace may have been American but, in his literal-minded dedication to the fantasy world of classicism, he was the embodiment of German scholarly seriousness....
...The soundtrack combines eerie, eternal-sounding music (Parsifal, Arvo Pärt) with textual recitations from Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Eliot and many, many more....
...Apart from the presence of Murdochs and Camerons in the area, the “north Oxfordshire set” is a handy label for wealthy second-homers, including bonus-wielding City bankers....
...Rhett Butler’s People By Donald McCaig MacMillan £17.99, 480 pages FT bookshop price: £14.39 A sequel to Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind told from Rhett Butler’s perspective....
...Their literary history includes translations, disputes, junk and wilder theories, such as Samuel Butler’s assertion in 1897 that The Odyssey was written by a woman....
...At the same time, in the US, Walter Cronkite was fronting a show called At Home 2001, promising American housewives a future of disposable dishes and robot butlers....
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