Time cools me with laughter
Good morning, says the world, sociopolitically everything is on fire and environmentally it feels just the same and you spent too much of your afternoon on difficult phone calls with doctors and bureaucracy, but here is a third-century CE clay tablet engraved with an extract from Odyssey 14, which no one expected to exist. Don't say I never gave you nothing.

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I feel I should value every good thing I can get these days.
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A most pleasing tablet, though, too.
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I maintain my reply was in character.
A most pleasing tablet, though, too.
It really made me happy.
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I just saw it in the Guardian! I do not have any kind of systematic news-collecting. I sort of read as many media sites as I can stand, and The New Yorker and New York Review of Books in print, and the paper version of the Boston Globe whenever I visit my parents.
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I want to know if it has variants from the version we know!
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Yes! I saw the news about the cave rescue. I had been so worried there would be a last-minute monsoon. That was also good.
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Nine
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Yes! An important thing itself, especially now.
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Or now I'm having doubts. Was it continuous? I suppose that's what wikipedia's for...
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Oral traditions are flexible, durable, and extremely important!
Or now I'm having doubts. Was it continuous? I suppose that's what wikipedia's for...
I think of it as continuously known, just not continuously recorded, or recorded in any fashion that survived. (There is a lot of attestation in visual art and other texts make reference to it, including ancient biographies of Homer which otherwise can't be trusted so far as you can throw a statue.) Maybe more of the older versions will turn up now that we know they exist. As I said to
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Thank you! That is of great interest and value to me!