The immovable bed built around the olive tree is Jiang's image for Odysseus' heart, home, and love: carefully made, rooted, and unable to be moved.
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The immovable bed built around the olive tree is Jiang's image for Odysseus' heart, home, and love: carefully made, rooted, and unable to be moved.
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"...words, they cut me to the core. Who can move my bed? Impossible task, even for some skilled craftsman. Unless a god came down..."
"...skill, I shaped a plumb to the line to make my bed posts, bored the holes it needed with an auger. Working from there,..."
"...Are you really my husband? Do you really know that this bed is something that can't be moved? And Odysseus says, yes, I know,..."
"for you, and it cannot be moved. And it's something that is the foundation of who I am. So I will never ever leave..."
"...So, he basically tells her maid, Eurycleia, to go make a bed for Odysseus. She's still not comfortable with him, so they'll sleep in..."
"...master built with his own hands. Take it out now, sturdy bed that it is, and spread it deep with fleece, blankets, and lesser..."
"...if you slept somewhere else, okay? So, we're gonna move your bed, and move it outside, and we'll cover it with nice blankets, all..."
"...famous halls, they laid his body down on his large carved bed and set beside him singers to lead off the laments, and their..."
"...Poland. Daughters were leaving and wanted to lie down on the bed. I wanted to have intercourse with them. At that one nun came..."
"...rules, right? But all Frank did was undress, lie on the bed and just lay there and imagine her coming. And she does. She..."
"...My friends are gone, but that's a truth. Nor grave nor bed denied. Learned in bodily lowliness and in the heart's pride."
"...is lost? The marks of a stranger, Colantinus, are in your bed, but it is only the body that had been violated. The soul..."
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The Odyssey ends by making love more important than empire, fame, and heroic death.
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