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.
It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all the good ones do, and that the great fashion for gloom and grimness was in fact a false path that certain writers took, I think in response to the horrors of the first half of th

