Hints and tips:
...There is the gospel-infused “Sign on the Cross”; alternative takes of the magnificent “Tears of Rage” and the cheerful “Open the Door, Homer”....
...By the time Homer came to write The Iliad, “he was writing it for an audience that already knew the story,” says Marina Warner, professor of literature at the University of Essex....
...The prognathous-primitive upper lip (early Homer Simpson); the lava rock complexion pumiced with anxiety; the windscreen-wiper eyes raking landscapes for potential catastrophe....
...with capital letters – is as a grand, defiantly self-important rock record built on epic, gracefully potty progressive rock scale, perhaps to compete with Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky and Berlioz, as well as Homer...
...“Before him, in Homer for instance, there were heroes and villains on both sides.”...
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