By Edward Curtin
EdwardCurtin.com
July 29, 2026
If you spent one to two years when you were 16-17 years old and full of wild physical and sexual energy assiduously translating Homer's The Odyssey from the ancient Greek in little (7"x 4") gray books where you placed your English translation interlineally, trying to get every word precisely right and the syntax flowing for the hawk-eyed inspection of a Greek obsessed Jesuit priest, you too might have felt wounded like Odysseus by a wild boar.