1. 14th book of 2024: “The Iliad", by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson.

    I really enjoyed Wilson’s “Odyssey” and “Oedipus Tyrannos” translations and had hoped to get to this last fall when I put it on the to-read pile. Alas.

    I’ve never read any The Iliad before, and it does kinda go on a bit (really? that’s your thoughts on the Iliad? sure why not, is “it was good” better?).

    Wilson manages to sneak in some slapstick amid all the brutality.

    (previously: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/103030875431089669)

    gravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)Attached: 1 image yo, that mist work in discord?Mastodon

    the hardback cover of The Iliad, by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson, as I read it, after pre-ordering it and letting it sit on the shelf for six months. The cover is going for a torn effect with the text below in black, red, and white capital serif over a gold painted wall with a tile motif along the bottom over a red band occupying half the cover on the right and bottom side, while under the torn paper or behind the crumbled wall is an illustration of a winged shirtless god holding something I’m sure I’m supposed to recognize but do notTranslated byEMILYWILSONTHEILIADHOMER

  2. Evening Ride

    A three and three quarters mile (six kilometer), 85 foot (26 meter) elevation ride over two hours, (a quarter hour moving) in San Francisco, California.

  3. Morning Ride

    A three and a half mile (five and a half kilometer), 33 foot (10 meter) elevation ride over half an hour, (a quarter hour moving) in San Francisco, California.

  4. RIP Alice Munro

    I’m a few stories into “Family Furnishings, Selected Stories 1995-2014”, the companion to “A Wilderness Station”, which I read a year ago, and expect to finish it before summer is out.

  5. muni fare enforcement at the inbound 27 / 12 stop on Cesar Chavez at Valencia

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