A fascinating insight about WATERSHIP DOWN (further confirmation of my suspicion that the Ancients first wrote all the stories we've simply been retelling - and reliving - ever since ...)

Either that, or everything's better with a classical education . . .

Have you had a chance to read Margaret Atwood's THE PENELOPIAD yet?

I have not. I own a copy, courtesy of strange_selkie and darthrami, but in the move from New Haven it vanished in a surfeit of boxes, like many of my books, and currently I have no idea where it is. This annoys me. Would you recommend it?