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I'd rather talk about whether Eco was primarily concerned w/ rewriting the past or promoting his own agenda with Il nome della rosa.
And does anyone here know anything about the Odyssey?
(I helped save b3ta! LimeyTreat Bitch. Lover. Child. Mother. Sinner. Saint., Sun 10 May 2009, 12:03, archived)
Promoting his own agenda.
Deffo.
(I helped save b3ta! Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Sun 10 May 2009, 12:05, archived)
Can you expand on that?
Perhaps into 3000 words, double spaced, MHRA style references. Thanks.
(I helped save b3ta! LimeyTreat Bitch. Lover. Child. Mother. Sinner. Saint., Sun 10 May 2009, 12:06, archived)
Never.
If Eco finds out I'm on to him there'll be hell to pay.
(I helped save b3ta! Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Sun 10 May 2009, 12:08, archived)
I liked the bit where George Clooney got punched by the Cyclops.

(rnuk http://flickr.com/rnuk, Sun 10 May 2009, 12:06, archived)
I'm interested in the bits about his wife and how she didn't recognise him.
Cos in the modern Italian rewriting of it she does recognise him but I don't know enough about the original to know why she didn't recognise him in the first place and why it's a significant change.
(I helped save b3ta! LimeyTreat Bitch. Lover. Child. Mother. Sinner. Saint., Sun 10 May 2009, 12:08, archived)
She didnt recognise him because he disguised himself.

(I helped save b3ta! Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Sun 10 May 2009, 12:09, archived)
Yeah I know. But in the rewriting he does too, but his old wetnurse recognises him and tells her.
Then she has a whole crisis thing because he didn't see fit to reveal himself to her but instead just to Telemaco and Eumeo and when he does reveal himself to her she pretends not to believe him then he almost leaves til she tells him that she does believe him and they stay. but int he original she just seems perfectly happy when he reveals himself to her and nto upset at all that he confided in Telemaco and Eumeo and not her and she's a bit wet. And I don't know why she was so happy just to accept it in the original.
(I helped save b3ta! LimeyTreat Bitch. Lover. Child. Mother. Sinner. Saint., Sun 10 May 2009, 12:13, archived)
Of course she's wet. She married a poofter.

(I helped save b3ta! Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Sun 10 May 2009, 12:14, archived)
He disguised himself as a beggar
and went along with all the other suitors, rather than just turn up and say 'Hello, the Wife, I'm home'. I think he was just showing off, to be honest.
(rnuk http://flickr.com/rnuk, Sun 10 May 2009, 12:14, archived)