TUSK!

I turn all Roman. I devour. I make a myth of myself. I label my palms and the soles of my feet Augusta. Step not here, Imperator.

I am sick, sick. With this desperate fury.

[text ID: But it is unclear when Odysseus finally achieves his ends and reaches his home, if indeese this moment ever comes. Odysseus is reunited with Penelope, but the poem continues. We see the ghosts of the suitors travel down to the underworld and meet the spirits of Achilles and Agamemnon, which might have been a kind of ending; but the poem continues. We see Odysseus reunites with his old father, Laertes; but the poem continues. Fighting breaks out on Ithaca between Odysseus and his supporters, and the friends and family members of the dead suitors. The battle groes intense, and Odysseus is wild with martial rage; only thanks to the intervention of Athena does it stop. And there the poem ends.

on the water a clear image of blossoms death close by

“I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all a creature of intense passionate feeling. I feel—everything. It is my genius. It burns me like fire.”