#157- Tolkien's The Silmarillion Part 1
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The Importance of Reading the Iliad
"I'm glad it was published, but you can see or I think that it was not ready for prime time," he says. "It lets you know everybody's got skin in the game." The book is like an isolated spotlight on a stage where the spotlight turns on and there's a table and a wine glass. It could be the way you experience the Iliad as just this really isolated thing. No, you go read the catalog of ships and you start to see what else is on the stage.
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