Mr. Larsen helped me come up with a sort of direction, which makes me extremely happy.
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06:07:41 PM,Monday 20 January 2003
A nice guy from B&G came by and fixed my lock this morning.
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01:45:10 PM,Monday 20 January 2003
Achilles has bits of being more interesting than Hector. Hector is a generally nice guy, he is fighting to defend his people, Troy will be taken and his wife will be taken over his dead body (he practically says as much to Andromache). His motives are simple, understandable, honourable motives. Achilles is a bit more complex in being as simple as he is. He fights for Glory, and stops fighting when his Glory is taken away from him. It isn't until the insult he got from Agamemnon is topped by the insult of Hector killing Patroclus that he is willing to return to battle. The first word of The Iliad is rage, and the word for rage is a word generally used for anger in gods, not humans. (This is what I have heard, I have not made a study of the word.) This is important, I think. It is why I like Fagles, he managed to keep it as the first word. (So did Chapman.) Everything he does is because of rage, he looses many souls heroic down to Hades, first when he stops fighting, and then when he begins fighting again. Even if he is a moody little brat.
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