For myself I couldn't care less, but I have a lover. Not a partner, Susannah, or a friend or a significant euphemism, but the love of my life. And he believes. And I've watched him tie himself in knots, as he struggles to find a place for himself in texts that were written thousands of years ago, with the deliberate aim of excluding him. Michael Arditti
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In the novel "The Corrections," author Jonathan Franzen explains that he wrote this book to show his lover how much he loves him. He does this by using Homer's Iliad and Odyssey as a guide. The Iliad and Odyssey were written in the 8th and 9th centuries BCE and tell the story of the Trojan War. Franzen shows how he has followed every step that the characters in these poems took.

He has taken care to recreate all of their actions and thoughts. This book portrays the type of love that Franzen has for his lover, and if you read it carefully you can see that he practices this type of love towards everyone he meets.

Source: The Enemy Of The Good

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