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  • He called the story A Space Odyssey.
    odyssey = long, eventful journey
  • It occurred to Phil that from the point of view of the birds, their still forms, obscured by canvas hoods, must have looked like lifeless debris. ... One day, nine or ten days into their odyssey, Louie felt something alight on his hood, and saw its shadow fall before him. It was an albatross.   (source)
  • The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change everything.   (source)
  • This crazy kidnapper (a. k. a. Ares) was the same man who had abducted me and two other adolescents in New York and brought us across country on a ten-day odyssey of terror.†   (source)
  • She gave me a piercing look, and I wondered if she had seen him on one of his odysseys.†   (source)
  • I could not and neither can she, for when this odyssey began, this is how I began.†   (source)
  • But their odyssey comes to a humiliating halt.†   (source)
  • It was only later that I felt the loss-Fitzgerald's Odyssey, Wu's FinalMarch, and a score of other epics which had survived my stroke now were shredded like cloud fragments in a high wind.†   (source)
  • ON MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 15, 1890, a day noteworthy in Chicago for its extraordinary warmth and elsewhere for the gunshot death of Sitting Bull, Daniel Burnham stepped aboard a train bound for New York and what he knew would be the most crucial encounter of the exposition odyssey.†   (source)
  • Ulysses, as we know from our earlier discussion, is the very long story of a single day in Dublin, June 16, 1904, its structure modeled on Homer's Odyssey (Ulysses being the Latin equivalent of the name of Homer's hero, Odysseus).†   (source)
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  • Now her house had become a sanctuary for families fleeing the storm, and when Kathy's Odyssey pulled into the driveway there were already a dozen or more people there, all of them Muslims from New Orleans and other parts of Louisiana and Mississippi.†   (source)
  • A kind of Grand Odyssey to Somewhere, a way to reacquaint himself with reality after the fictional terrain of the novel.†   (source)
  • Andros read Homer's Odyssey, captivated by the images of powerful bronze men doing battle on these islands.†   (source)
  • The Park Is Open Until 8 p.m. MY MEDICAL odyssey began in the summer of 2006, when I first felt slight, unexplained pain in my upper abdomen.†   (source)
  • Time to finish this twentieth-century odyssey of Phaedrus and be done with it.†   (source)
  • She told her daughters, once again, the story of her odyssey from Japan on board the Korea Maru.†   (source)
  • Her love of the quick and the greasy had sent her on an odyssey of fad diets, unsatisfying supplements, and miracle workout tapes through her late teens and early twenties.†   (source)
  • The round of parties began as scheduled the following day and our social odyssey was initiated, of course, at the home of the patriarch and matriarch of the clan.†   (source)
  • He actually greeted both Miss Hastings and me as we began the next phase of our odyssey.†   (source)
  • Then she lowers her hand and her long fingers gesticulate and flutter in the air with incongruous grace as she recounts her odyssey.†   (source)
  • "Jerene Mortenson had been anxiously following her son's odyssey from her new home in River Falls, Wisconsin.†   (source)
  • His 2,600-mile hitchhiking odyssey of the previous spring, from the Gila River reservation in Arizona to Ed Block's south Texas cotton field and back—had put in motion a series of events that quickly reached the highest levels of the U.S. Marine command.†   (source)
  • With over 500,000 fans waiting for hours to see them, the boys had no idea how much Monterrey had fallen in love with them during their odyssey.†   (source)
  • The date was Tuesday, February 17, 1778, and, as Adams had no way of knowing, it marked the beginning of what would become a singular odyssey, in which he would journey farther in all, both by sea and land, than any other leader of the American cause.†   (source)
  • Since Etta had stopped at a Mobil station three blocks away to wash off the evidence of a hot, dusty 'zoo-mile odyssey home, the chrome caught the rays of the high afternoon sun and flung them back into its face.†   (source)
  • The Amistads' Heroic Odyssey Revealed!†   (source)
  • Their journey has been an odyssey, and the Grants are exhausted.†   (source)
  • But finally, when dawn breaks and deep fatigue floods through my bones and muscles—including that doughty love-muscle which at last begins to flag and droop after its tenacious vigil—Leslie re-creates for me the dark odyssey of her psychoanalysis.†   (source)
  • I had never dealt directly with people who felt their lives enriched by weekly odysseys to wrestling matches.†   (source)
  • Others have posited that an unresolved Oedipal conflict was at the root of his fatal odyssey.   (source)
  • Sasaki asked a few questions about Louie's odyssey, then began reminiscing about USC, meals at the student union, ten-cent movies on campus.   (source)
  • But there was a way to avoid such aggravation: He could simply abandon the Datsun and resume his odyssey on foot.   (source)
  • "Me," says Burres, "I thought Alex had lost his mind when he told us about his 'great Alaskan odyssey,' as he called it."   (source)
    odyssey = long eventful journey
  • And like McCandless, upon embarking on his terminal odyssey, Ruess adopted a new name or, rather, a series of new names.   (source)
  • On April 15, 1992, Chris McCandless departed Carthage, South Dakota, in the cab of a Mack truck hauling a load of sunflower seeds: His "great Alaskan odyssey" was under way.   (source)
    odyssey = long, eventful journey
  • My friend, Wayne, wants me to stay working at the grain elevator through May and then go combining with him the entire summer, but I have my soul set entirely on my Alaskan Odyssey and hope to be on my way no later than April 15.   (source)
  • An Odyssey of the North,   (source)
  • Singbe told the tale of his odyssey that had begun nearly a year before.†   (source)
  • On the roof, he sipped paiyu cha deep into the night with his new friend the nurmadhar, hearing the story of Aslam's odyssey.†   (source)
  • I must admit to having mixed emotions as I awaited Jason Stevens' arrival for what I knew would be the beginning of our last monthly journey together in this yearlong odyssey of discovery.†   (source)
  • After surviving their odyssey, the last residents of Brolmo village arrived, exhausted and emaciated, in Skardu, where the military directed them to their new home.†   (source)
  • It was in my fifty-third year of practicing law, and my eightieth year of life here on this earth, that I was to undertake an odyssey that would change my life forever.†   (source)
  • On his third odyssey through the echoing halls of the crumbling Ministry of Finance, he met Afghanistan's deputy minister of finance, who threw up his hands when Mortenson asked him why Uzra and her teachers weren't receiving their pay.†   (source)
  • Mortenson, who'd worked as an emergency room trauma nurse for the freedom the irregular hours gave him to pursue his climbing career, gave Fine injections of Decadron to ease the edema and the four already exhausted climbers began a forty-eight-hour odyssey of dragging and lowering him down craggy rock faces.†   (source)
  • In Schaller's own book, Stones of Silence, he confesses that his treks through the Karakoram, which he called "the most rugged range on earth," were, for him, spiritual odysseys as well as scientific expeditions.†   (source)
  • "Well, well," said the lawyer, when I had quite done, "this is a great epic, a great Odyssey of yours.†   (source)
  • They were twelve, they were sixteen, they were quartets in separate motors bound on a quick Odyssey over Paris.†   (source)
  • Pope's Odyssey In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster.†   (source)
  • It was Homer's requiem; itself an Iliad and Odyssey in the air, singing its own wrath and wanderings.†   (source)
  • Disposed apart, Ulysses shares the treat; A trivet table and ignobler seat, The Prince assigns— —Odyssey, Book XXI The Prior Aymer had taken the opportunity afforded him, of changing his riding robe for one of yet more costly materials, over which he wore a cope curiously embroidered.†   (source)
  • The Aeneid first tells Homer's Odyssey and then his Iliad.†   (source)
  • This is how Chapman translated The Iliad (first in 1598), though he turned in his Odyssey (1614) to rhymed decasyllabic couplets.†   (source)
  • Ever so far back, preluding thee, America, Old chants, Egyptian priests, and those of Ethiopia, The Hindu epics, the Grecian, Chinese, Persian, The Biblic books and prophets, and deep idyls of the Nazarene, The Iliad, Odyssey, plots, doings, wanderings of Eneas, Hesiod, Eschylus, Sophocles, Merlin, Arthur, The Cid, Roland at Roncesvalles, the Nibelungen, The troubadours, minstrels, minnesingers, skalds, Chaucer, Dante, flocks of singing birds, The Border Minstrelsy, the bye-gone…†   (source)
  • King Alcinous, in Mr Pope's Odyssey, offers his daughter to Ulysses.†   (source)
  • Odyssey, xi.†   (source)
  • [*] See the 2d Odyssey, ver.†   (source)
  • Mr Bayle (I think, in his article of Helen) imputes this, and with greater probability, to their violent love of glory; for the truth of which, we have the authority of him who of all others saw farthest into human nature, and who introduces the heroine of his Odyssey, the great pattern of matrimonial love and constancy, assigning the glory of her husband as the only source of her affection towards him.†   (source)
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  • The Odyssey begins after the 10-year Trojan War (which was the subject of The Iliad).
    The Odyssey = ancient Greek story (attributed to Homer) of the Odysseus' difficult journey home
  • With his Odyssean saga featured in newspapers, magazines, and radio shows, he was a national sensation.   (source)
    Odyssean = like the epic Greek poem of Odysseus' long, circuitous, and eventful journey home
  • The words were no sooner out of my mouth than I saw that I had made another mistake; and I felt really annoyed with myself, as I did not want to go into a long explanation just then, or begin another series of Odyssean lies.†   (source)
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  • Did everybody write the Odyssey?†   (source)
  • As one book, Appalachian Odyssey, notes about the influx of hill people to Detroit: "It was not simply that the Appalachian migrants, as rural strangers 'out of place' in the city, were upsetting to Midwestern, urban whites.†   (source)
  • On the first leg of my odyssey, I sit between a Filipina nurse and a Tamil auto mechanic both on their way to Bahrain.†   (source)
  • A TWIST The Odyssey, an epic poem about a hero's journey home from war, ends with reunion and peace.†   (source)
  • As a result of these deprivations, I was able to recite all of Fitzgerald's translation of the Odyssey by the time I was six, compose a sestina before I could dress myself, and think in spiral fugue-verse before I ever interfaced with an AI.†   (source)
  • As we now know, James Joyce envisioned every one of the eighteen episodes of the novel asa parallel to some incident or situation in The Odyssey.†   (source)
  • If he had just gotten in the Odyssey with them!†   (source)
  • She'd take the bald-headed witches who turn children into mice — and The Odyssey, with the Cyclops and the enchantress who transforms his warriors into pigs.†   (source)
  • The minister from Great Britain had survived the odyssey with exemplary stoicism, shooting with his camera the animals they would not allow him to kill with his rifles, and not a night went by that he was not seen in evening dress in the dining room.†   (source)
  • Thus the hero of the Odyssey is a great fighter, a wily schemer, a ready speaker, a man of stout heart and broad wisdom who knows that he must endure without too much complaining what the gods send; and he can both build and sail a boat, drive a furrow as straight as anyone, beat a young braggart at throwing the discus, challenge the Pheacian youthat boxing, wrestling or running; flay, skin, cut up and cook an ox, and be moved to tears by a song.†   (source)
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  • I'd sit in the chair and read to him from various paperbacks I'd bring in, stuff like The Odyssey or One Thousand and One Nights.†   (source)
  • I had Billy Budd, Martin Eden, Treasure Island, Heart of Darkness, The Odyssey, Robinson Crusoe, and the Mutiny on the Bounty trilogy.†   (source)
  • And for the first time in years, he had someone with whom he could discuss the odyssey he'd been on since he first set foot in Korphe.†   (source)
  • Finn knelt beside me and handed me my copy of The Odyssey.†   (source)
  • The Odyssey.†   (source)
  • Scouring his memory Max hit upon the Odyssey and remembered its isle-dwelling sorceress—the one who transformed men into swine.†   (source)
  • The odyssey began just after dawn on the first Monday in May.†   (source)
  • Those names are drawn, of course, from The Iliad, although Walcott uses elements—parallels, persons, and situations—of both it and The Odyssey in his epic.†   (source)
  • In both The Iliad and The Odyssey Homer has characters say of other characters that they have "a heart of iron," iron being the newest and hardest metal known to men of the late Bronze Age.†   (source)
  • We can never get all the way to the level of pure myth, even when a work like The Lord of the Rings or The Odyssey or The Old Man and the Sea feels "mythic," since even those works are displacements of myth.†   (source)
  • A thousand miles away, Yuko's husband Ahmaad was driving the Odyssey.†   (source)
  • I loved reading the Odyssey and the Aeneid; and I made some of the finest friends of my life….†   (source)
  • By then Kathy would have the Odyssey packed and ready in the driveway.†   (source)
  • In the Odyssey, she heard President Bush's weekly radio address.†   (source)
  • THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 1 By six a. m., Kathy had the Odyssey packed and the kids buckled in.†   (source)
  • A little while later, a foul odor overtook the Odyssey.†   (source)
  • Kathy was loading up a few small bags in the back of the Odyssey.†   (source)
  • She put aside the thriller and the book about Alexander the Great, hesitated — and picked up the Odyssey.†   (source)
  • They were almost all books for grown-ups: a well-worn thriller, a book about snakes, another about Alexander the Great, the Odyssey.†   (source)
  • One does not fulfill one's potential by listening to Scheherazade in a gilded hall, or by reading the Odyssey in one's den.†   (source)
  • She and her kids put away their sleeping bags and pillows and left in the Odyssey, intending to drive around most of the day, going to malls or restaurants—anything to kill time.†   (source)
  • She wanted her own kids to know their aunts and uncles and cousins, and so the relief was profound when the Odyssey arrived at her brother's house in Baton Rouge at eleven-thirty.†   (source)
  • The outskirts of Skardu, awash in pharing and starga, apricot and walnut orchards, announced that the odyssey along the Indus was over.†   (source)
  • But Parry replied that the epithet is ornamental, being used of the earth also in The Odyssey (11.†   (source)
  • 3 Whether the same poet composed both The Iliad and The Odyssey has been debated since antiquity, but need not concern us here.†   (source)
  • Behind Nestor in backing up Agamemnon is Odysseus, whose character conforms to the brave, eloquent, and successful warrior that he is in The Odyssey.†   (source)
  • One of the earliest details preserved about Homer is that he was blind; singing would have been a plausible occupation for a blind man in archaic Greece, but the story could well have been inspired by the portrayal of a respected blind singer in the eighth book of The Odyssey.†   (source)
  • In the high-classical culture of Athens, The Iliad, along with its sequel, The Odyssey, was memorized by schoolboys, performed to vast audiences in public arenas, and studied closely by scholars in lectures and monographs.†   (source)
  • Greek Epic in the Eighth Century B.C. We can glimpse the traditions behind The Iliad only indirectly, for it is the oldest Greek poem we have; linguists place it earlier than The Odyssey by about a generation (though our tools are not sharp enough to exclude the possibility that both poems were composed by a single, long-lived singer).†   (source)
  • Such was his prestige that when Virgil aspired to compose the national Roman poem, he built his Aeneid squarely upon Homer: its first six books followed The Odyssey to tell how Aineias survived the fall of Troy and made his way to Italy, and the last six books closely refashioned The Iliad to recount the tragic war he fought there to found a new civilization.†   (source)
  • Compared both to a tower and to a stubborn mule as he steadfastly resists; the Trojans, he is less agile and voluble than Odysseus, and the poet knows the story (clearly alluded to in The Odyssey) that the two clashed after Akhilleus' death: when the army had to decide who would be awarded Akhilleus' immortal armor, it was Odysseus who won the contest, an insult that drove Aias to suicide.†   (source)
  • …his companions, borrowing and lending in an intricate web, from Max Isaacs, from "Nosey" Schmidt, the butcher's son, who had all the rich adventures of the Rover Boys; he ransacked Gant's shelves at home, reading translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey at the same time as Diamond Dick, Buffalo Bill, and the Algers, and for the same reason; then, as the first years waned and the erotic gropings became more intelligible, he turned passionately to all romantic legendry, looking for…†   (source)
  • It occurs when the boy who has been enchanted in the nursery by Stories from the Odyssey buckles down to really learning Greek.†   (source)
  • Many tales isolate and greatly enlarge upon one or two of the typical elements of the full cycle (test motif, flight motif, abduction of the bride), others string a number of independent cycles into a single series (as in the Odyssey).†   (source)
  • Balbec! the oldest bone in the geological skeleton that underlies our soil, the true Armor, the sea, the land's end, the accursed region which Anatole France—an enchanter whose works our young friend ought to read—has so well depicted, beneath its eternal fogs, as though it were indeed the land of the Cimmerians in the Odyssey.†   (source)
  • And in the Odyssey—that's a beautiful poem—there's a more wonderful giant than Goliath,—Polypheme, who had only one eye in the middle of his forehead; and Ulysses, a little fellow, but very wise and cunning, got a red-hot pine-tree and stuck it into this one eye, and made him roar like a thousand bulls."†   (source)
  • 1 The immense story of Homer's reception is very well told in Howard Clark, Homer's Readers: A Historical Introduction to the Iliad and the Odyssey (Newark, 1981).†   (source)
  • Indeed, it may be doubted whether Ulysses, who by the way seems to have had the best stomach of all the heroes in that eating poem of the Odyssey, ever made a better meal.†   (source)
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