@xai When you use voice chat in an existing chat thread, all the previous data is erased & only the voice transcript remains on the thread. It's gone, not deleted. Just gone. Grok says "I have no memory of 'x conversation' or the earlier thread. HELP! @elonmusk@grok
@NathanFillion just what exactly in the 'Verse are you up to?
I hope there will be grenades this time. Or at least some fancy flyin'.
What say you, Captain?
Holy smokes, I'm having some fun here. Entire text will follow soon as a project. Thoughts so far?
Begin Book 1:
Sing to me—quietly, if you don’t mind—Muse,
about a man forced to go out and meet new people,
who wandered far and wide after knocking down Troy,
a city that honestly should’ve stayed up if it wanted privacy.
He saw the towns of many people, learned how their minds worked
(which is already more than anyone should have to do),
and suffered a lot at sea—emotionally, physically, spiritually—
trying to save his own life and get his friends home
(which, to be clear, was generous of him).
But he couldn’t save them, not even though he tried,
because they made spectacularly bad choices.
They ate the cattle of the Sun—
the kind of thing everyone knows you’re not supposed to do.
Children, really.
So the Sun took away their chance to get home.
Consequences arrived promptly.
Tell us how this started, goddess—
if you must—daughter of Zeus.
From wherever you feel comfortable speaking.
Now, everyone else who escaped sudden death
was already home, done with both war and ocean travel
(the correct life decision).
But this one man—delayed, delayed, delayed—
was being held by a goddess who wanted him as a husband,
Calypso, who lived in a cave,
which sounds peaceful until you realize you’re not allowed to leave.
Even so, when the year finally came around—
after many looping, exhausting seasons—
the gods decided it was time for him to go home to Ithaca.
Not that the trouble stopped there, even among friends.
All the gods pitied him
except Poseidon,
who remained intensely, almost impressively angry
that Odysseus was trying to return to land at all.
@imitrovic@jringenberg@TheGreatB00ks The Odyssey: A Translation by One Who Declined the Invitation
by Agora P. Hobia
The Odyssey, Rendered by a Person Unimpressed by Sailing
by Irma F. Terra
I understood "many turns" to imply cunning, adaptability, endurance, but not moral slipperiness. It's interesting how so many like to add "context", when the only context that existed at the time was Homer's. If the translator refuses to think like an uncommonly wise dude from 2800 years ago, then it will be largely incorrect, or at least have the wrong ideas most of the time. Look at a black and white image with a color filter and see if anything new and useful is added.
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