Hello.
It comes from T.E. Lawrence's translation of "The Odyssey" by Homer.
It's from the introduction to The Odyssey, and it's excerpted in a
message on an online forum called nervousness.org:
"O Divine Poesy, goddess, daughter of Zeus, sustain for me
this song of the various-minded man who,after he had
plundered the innermost citadel of hallowed Troy, was made
to stray grievously about the coasts of men, the sport of
their customs, good and bad, while his heart, through all the
sea-faring, ached with an agony to redeem himself and bring
his company safe home. Vain hope--for them. The fools!
Their own witlessness cast them aside. To destroy for meat
the oxen of the most exalted Sun, wherefore the Sun-god
blotted out the day of their return. Make this tale live for us
in all its many bearings, O Muse. . . ."
source: nervousness.org
http://nervousness.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=9224
The book cited on that messageboard is "The War of Art: Break Through
the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles" by Steven Pressfield.
I looked at the book using the "search inside" feature. The passage is
reproduced on Page 119.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0446691437/
The unabridged Lawrence translation is widely available in libraries
and from booksellers such as half.com
http://half.ebay.com/cat/buy/prod.cgi?cpid=50097&domain_id=1856&meta_id=1
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search strategy:
"all its many bearings"
I hope this helps. |
