The Missing Blogger Returns … but briefly …

Playing with Mother William Kay Blacklock

Playing with Mother – William Kay Blacklock
~ source Wikimedia Commons

To all my friends, followers and those who just happen to stumble across my blog, I’m so sorry that I’ve been absent and have fallen behind in The Iliad Read-Along.  My mother has been in the hospital for the last month+, which has taken up most of my time for reading and blogging.  She lives some distance from me, about 1 1/2 – 3 hours round-trip, depending on traffic, and with the visits and talks with doctors, etc. I’ve had little time to do much else.  Right now, she’s not eating much and at times refusing food, so it doesn’t look good.  She’s had a long life and she says that she’s ready to go, so I believe it’s just a matter of when.  It’s sad but then again, it’s part of life and we must accept what it brings. Hopefully Jesus has made a special place for her with the angels. 😇

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The Iliad ~ Book XI & Book XII

The Iliad Read-along

In these sections the epic lives up to its reputation of being a “poem of death,” but in spite of this title, you can still see very human exchanges between characters.  I’m going to try to pick out some of these more human elements.

In Book XI there are a number of similes (a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid) so be on the lookout!

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