True Stories Deal With Hunger, Imaginary Ones

Man's Usual Routine Is To Work And To Dream And Work And Dream.

The Iliad Is The Private Lives Of People Thrown Into Disorder By History.

The Odyssey Is The Story Of Americans Up To The Point Where They Are Well-established, And Even So It Is Detached From The Historical Side.

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.

Ulysses Finds Himself Unchanged, Aside From His Experience, At The End Of His Odyssey.