Iliad as IMsIliad as IMsIliad as IMs 05/25/2004 03:43 AM Microsoft has commissioned an IM-speak translation of The Iliad to promote its new IM client; book two is compressed to a mere 24 "words": Agamemnon hd a dream: Troy not defended. Ordered attack! But Trojans knew they were coming n were prepared. Achilles sat sulking in his tent.Link (via Fark) This is a GrokNews Entry: (what is grok?)Iliad as IMsGrok Headline matches for Iliad as IMsOur IliadOur Iliad 05/15/2004 11:41 AM Ian Brown writes in Canada's Globe and Mail about how Abu Ghraib looks to someone immersed in The Iliad. It's impressionistic — at one point, it's Europe that's sulking in its tent, and at another Donald Rumsfeld is the modern stand-in for Achilles — but it's also splendid. I, too, have been reading the Robert Fagles translation, which is both muscular and lyrical, and it's hard not to see the Iraq war through its lens. Homer does something that our accounts of our war have not: He conveys the sweep of the war by showing, one at a time,... Homer's "Iliad" now in messenger speak
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