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“SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave. Figuratively, any lady of splendid promise, dissembled purpose and disappointing performance.”

Life Purpose Promise Ocean Performances Musical Wave Vain Splendid Disappointing Sirens Prodigies Odysseus Ocean Wave

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“On these sands and in the clefts of the rocks, in the depths of the sea, in the creaking of the pines, you'll spy secret footprints and catch far-off voices from the homecoming celebration. This land still longs for Odysseus.”

Stills Home Voice Secret Sea Land Rocks Depth Sand Celebration Spy Footprint Homecoming Odysseus

Author:Homer

“As I look back, I feel a touch of pride at my younger self's dedication to literature, which gave him the strength of mind to resist the blandishments of the enemies of promise. The sirens of ad-land sang sweetly and seductively, but I thought of Odysseus lashing himself to the mast of his ship, and somehow stayed on course.”

Feels Mind Looks Self Courses Literature Enemy Land Pride Promise Ships Advertising Ads Dedication Sirens Strength Of Mind Masts Odysseus Younger Self

Author:Salman Rushdie

“It's the quintessential Greek sport: harmonious, competitive, agonizing, nautical, and above all, intelligent. It combines Odysseus's brains and brawn and love of the sea with the tactical precision of the Spartan pikeman.”

Sports Brain Sea And Love Intelligent Greek Harmonious Precision Rowing Nautical Tactical Agonizing Quintessential Odysseus

Author:Barry S. Strauss

“To find anything comparable with our forthcoming ventures into space, we must go back far beyond Columbus, far beyond Odysseus-far, indeed, beyond the first ape-man. We must contemplate the moment, now irrevocably lost in the mists of time, when the ancestor off all of us came crawling out of the sea.”

Men Firsts Moments Lost Space Sea Ancestor Contemplating Venture Mist Apes Star Gazing Columbus Crawling Odysseus Forthcoming

Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“Across the gulf of centuries, the blind smile of Homer is turned upon our age. Along the echoing corridors of time, the roar of the rockets merges now with the creak of the wind-taut rigging. For somewhere in the world today, still unconscious of his destiny, walks the boy who will be the first Odysseus of the Age of Space.”

World Firsts Stills Age Today Space Walks Boys Destiny Century Wind Future Blind Unconscious Predictions Rockets World Today Corridors Odysseus

Book:By Space Possessed

Source: By Space Possessed

“She sent him a warm and gentle wind, and Lord Odysseus was happy as he set his sails to catch the breeze. He sat beside the steering oar and used his skill to steer the raft.”

Used Lord Sea Wind Skills Warm Ships Gentle Sat Sail Breeze Steers Steering Oar Odysseus

Author:Homer

“One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it.”

Should Death Blessing Odysseus

Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche

“There is yet no ethic dealing with man's relation to land and to the animals and plants which grow upon it. Land, like Odysseus' slave-girls, is still property. The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations.”

Men Stills Girl Grows Animal Growing Up Economic Land Ethics Relation Property Plant Slave Privilege Obligation Odysseus Slave Girl

Book:The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold

Source: The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold