title: Chapman's Homer: The Odyssey
author:  Homer 
description: Immortalized by John Keats in his poem "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," two nearly 400-year-old masterpieces of canonical translation Chapman's versions of The Iliad (re-published in 1998) and The Odyssey (coming this month) are now both available in U.S. editions for the first time since 1957. Even stalwart fans of Robert Fagles's recent triumphs will want these versions, which retain their visionary clarity and power. In the words of Keats: "Oft of one wide expanse had I been told/ That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne:/ Yet did I never breathe its pure serene/ Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:/ Then felt I like some watcher of the skies/ When a new planet swims into his ken;/ Or like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes/ He stared at the Pacific and all his men/ Look'd at each other with a wild surmise / Silent, upon a peak in Darien."
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  # The Great and Secret Show
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Clive Barker
  
  
  
  
  
  _Memory, prophecy and fantasy—_  
   _the past, the future and_  
   _the dreaming moment between—_  
   _are all one country,_  
   _living one immortal day._  
    
  _To know that is Wisdom._  
    
  _To use it is the Art._
  
  
  # PART ONE
  
  
  
  
  
  ## THE MESSENGER
  
  
  
  
  
  ONE
  
  
  
  
  
  Homer opened the door.
  
  
  
  
  
  “Come on in, Randolph.”
  
  
  
  
  
  Jaffe hated the way he said _Randolph,_ with the faintest trace of contempt in
  the word, as though he knew every damn crime Jaffe had ever committed, right
  from the first, the littlest.
  
  
  
  
  
  “What are you waiting for?” Homer said, seeing Jaffe linger. “You’ve got work
  to do. The sooner it’s started, the sooner I can find you more.”
  
  
  
  
  
  Randolph stepped into the room. It was large, painted the same bilious yellow
  and battleship gray as every other office and corridor in the Omaha Central
  Post Office. Not that much of the walls was visible. Piled higher than head-
  height on every side was mail. Sacks, satchels, b