There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.
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When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.Raymond Queneau
Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey.
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The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.
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It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.
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All societies are historical.
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One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.
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