The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.
I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below.
Do you know the phrase, 'The word 'water' will not wet you?' It's one thing to write down an idea and another thing entirely to execute it.
I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.
The odyssey is not going out and seeing the world: it's about trying to get home. It's home to the woman you love.
Swimming has been a very effective medium for telling a story about the state of our planet.
'The Odyssey' is the great tale, and I was really taken by 'The Iliad,' so I dig into those things, and when I was a kid I didn't. You've gotta have a certain level of understanding yourself before that stuff really starts to resonate.
I can't write unless I'm overlooking water.
The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story.
'Ocean's Kingdom' is a fairy story with no subtext, no resonance - it's not about anything except its water-logged plot.