I'll have to give the Iliad another try, then. At the age I tried to read it, I was of the mindset that "if it was printed in the book, then it must be read in sequence" - lol. I realize now that I'm way beyond that and will, on occasion, skip ahead in my reading if the reading starts to bog down (e.g. overly indulgent landscape descriptions, and most sex scenes in romance novels that go on for more than couple pages - been there, done that, got the T-shirt
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