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Posted by eighth reading
on May 17, 2009, 10:40 pm, in reply to "The Odyssey"
EIGHTH READING – EURYLOCHUS, SHIPMATE and POLITES
EURYLOCHUS
Is he asleep?
SHIPMATE
Snoring like a buffalo. A fly crawled across his face and he didn’t move.
POLITES
I still say we should hang fire – do as he says.
EURYLOCHUS
You didn’t say that on the boat – when he told you not to shoot. Oh no, you picked up a bow and arrow and let fly.
POLITES
Yes, and look what happened.
EURYLOCHUS
You disobeyed him once – you can do it again. That’s the point I’m making.
POLITES
I just want to go home.
EURYLOCHUS
The same as everyone else does. Which is why it’s time to act.
SHIPMATE
Convince us, then. We’re listening.
EURYLOCHUS
Men, I don’t say these things lightly. I’ve worshipped Odysseus from the very beginning. I’ve followed him to the end of the earth – and halfway back.
But right now I doubt his mind. Face facts. We’re starving to death, and roaming free not more than half a mile away are a hundred head of prime beef. It doesn’t stack up. The equation doesn’t work.
POLITES
So why doesn’t he let us feast?
EURYLOCHUS
Superstition and delirium. Tiresias in the underworld – Odysseus was truly spooked. And seeing the ghost of his mother…I think at that point he gave up.
SHIPMATE
As if he’s risking our lives on purpose – is that what you mean?
EURYLOCHUS
As if some death-wish has entered his mind.
POLITES
You don’t believe that, do you?
EURYLOCHUS
Why else would have have steered into the teeth of that six-headed beast, or tried to tip us into that underwater hurricane?
No, comrades, we’re in charge of our own destiny now.
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