One Can Easily Classify All

One Can Easily Classify All Works Of Fiction Either As Descendants Of The Iliad Or Of The Odyssey.

The Poet Is Never Inspired, Because He Is The Master Of That Which Appears To Others As Inspiration. He Does Not Wait For Inspiration To Fall Out Of The Heavens Like Roasted Ortolans. He Knows How To Hunt...he Is Never Inspired Because He Is Unceasingly Inspired, Because The Powers Of Poetry Are Always At His Disposition, Subjected To His Will, Submissive To His Own Activity.

The Iliad Is The Private Lives Of People Thrown Into Disorder By History.

Ulysses Finds Himself Unchanged, Aside From His Experience, At The End Of His Odyssey.

It Isn’t Happiness I Am Concerned With But Experience.