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Homer's (the blind man's) poetry XX as seen by the waiter "Iliad I - Iliad II - Iliad III - Iliad IV - Iliad V - Iliad VI - Iliad VII - Iliad IIX - Iliad IX - Iliad X - Iliad XI - Iliad XII - Iliad XIII - Iliad IV - Iliad XV - Iliad XVI - Iliad XVII - Iliad XIIX - Iliad XIX - Iliad XX - Iliad XXI - Iliad XXII - Iliad XXIII - Iliad XXIV" "Iliad XX"
XX Book twenty All flock to the halls of Zeus taking up their seats in the colonnades of polished stone built by Hephaestus for Father Zeus with craft and cunning. The gods assemble deep in Zeus's bunker. All get their say. The god of earthquakes listens to hear the goddess' housekeeping complains. Surfing up from the deep sea Poseidon arrives to join the ranks, dripping saltwater he takes his seat in their midst and probes Zeus's plans: "Why now great king of lightning, why summon the gods to council once again? Troy's and Achaea's armies are ready to fight. Battle is set to burst in flames between the two teams Whohavehelen and the Whichhavenothelen." Hades opens one of the Pullman-suit-cases he brought, a flood of hundred dollar bills fresh of the American-made- offset-press in Irak, still hot... ...and Athena asking "Paper or plastic empties shopping bags with CCs from Hongkong and raw diamonds from the skeleton coast off Namibia, just... ...as Hera points at the coffers filled with Jewish treasures from Swiss bank accounts, which officially never existed... ...while groups of mermaids parade from the ocean's depth to the top of Olympus with bullions of gold from lost treasures, blinking in the daylight... ...Apollo arrives with the fortunes of the holy grail, he had found on a card table back East. Zeus, running the show, points to the foyer of his domicile, "The betting cages are now
open!"
"Iliad I - Iliad II - Iliad III - Iliad IV - Iliad V - Iliad VI - Iliad VII - Iliad IIX - Iliad IX - Iliad X - Iliad XI - Iliad XII - Iliad XIII - Iliad IV - Iliad XV - Iliad XVI - Iliad XVII - Iliad XIIX - Iliad XIX - Iliad XX - Iliad XXI - Iliad XXII - Iliad XXIII - Iliad XXIV" 07/06/08
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