I wrote a series about my US trip with many references to Homer’s Odyssey, called the Windiad. The story of Odysseus is from the perspective of Odysseus. Penelope, his wife, is largely presented as a symbolic figure of a long-suffering and faithful wife.
The Canadian writer, Margaret Atwood, wrote a sardonic novel from Penelope’s [...]
Entries from October 2008
October 21, 2008
The Penelopiad
October 15, 2008
The Global Electoral College
At the Economist.com, they’re conducting a global internet election on the US Presidential election. They’ve assigned electoral votes for each country, and so far Obama has 8,842 electoral votes to McCain’s 32. It’s a landslide. Obama seems to be averaging about 80% of the vote in most countries. Only Georgia is strongly in favor of [...]
