that two fates bear on me to the day of death.
If I hold out here and I lay siege to Troy,
my journey home is gone, but my glory never dies.
If I voyage back to the fatherland I love,
my pride, my glory dies.....
true, but the life that's left me will be long,
the stroke of death will not come on me quickly."
-Achilles
From Homer's Iliad, translated by Robert Fagles
THE WIZARDS THE PILOT GUNSLINGERS THE SURFING PIG LOBSTER DINNER POEM
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