The DiGiovanni Lineage
When my Uncle Tony first met Heidi, then my fiancée, he quipped with his particular brand of sardonic judgment, “She will improve the Barker gene pool.” Tony was a University of Chicago-trained lawyer, and brevity was part of the joke. There was no accompanying argument. None was necessary. He knew the Barkers. Viewed objectively, the…
The Odyssey
Ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, Μοῦσα, πολύτροπον… “Tell me, Muse, of the man of many turns…” (Odyssey 1.1) In the hall of Alcinous, a blind man takes up the lyre. Demodocus sings of Troy: first the quarrel of Achilles and Odysseus, then the wooden horse, the city opened from within, the night filled with bronze and fire.…
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