Cyclops
Storyboard Text
- "Then I sent out two picked men and a runner to learn what race of men that land sustained.They fell in, soon enough, with Lotus Eaters,who showed no will to do us harm, only offering the sweet Lotus to our friends but those who ate this honeyed plant, the Lotus,never cared to report, nor to return":
- "In the next land we found were Cyclopes,giants, louts, without a law to bless them.In ignorance leaving the fruitage of the earth in mystery to the immortal gods..."
- ¨When he came he had a load of dry boughs on his shoulder to stoke his fire at suppertime. He dumped it with a great crash into that hollow cave,and we all scattered fast to the far wall."
- "Now came the time to toss for it: who ventured along with me? whose hand could bear to thrust and grind that spike in Cyclops eye, when mild sleep had mastered him?"
- "I tied them silently together, twining cords of willow from the ogre’s bed;then slung a man under each middle one to ride there safely, shielded left and right.So three sheep could convey each man. I took the woolliest ram, the choicest of the flock,and hung myself under his kinky belly,pulled up tight, with fingers twisted deepin sheepskin ringlets for an iron grip."
- "Down to the ship Eurylochus came running to cry alarm, foul magic doomed his men!"
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