Today‘s bunch, however, are almost too trivial to merit any attention whatsoever. They want to hear about stock-market prices and world politics and their own health problems and such stupidities; in addition to which they want to converse with a lot of dead nonentities we in this realm cannot be expected to know. Who is this ‘Marilyn‘ everyone is so keen on? Who is this ‘Adolf? It‘s a waste of energy to spend time with these people, and so exasperating. - P186
But it‘s only by peering through such limited keyholes that I‘m able to keep track of Odysseus, during those times he‘s not down here in his own familiar form. - P186
I suppose you know the rules. If we wish to, we can get ourselves reborn, and have another try at life; but first we have to drink from the Waters of Forgetfulness, so our past lives will be wiped from our memories - P187
‘I understand the interpretation of the whole Trojan War episode has changed,‘ I tell her, to take some of the wind out of her sails. ‘Now they think you were just a myth. It was all about trade routes. That‘s what the scholars are saying.‘ - P187
My past life was fraught with many difficulties, but who‘s to say the next one wouldn‘t be worse? Even with my limited access I can see that the world is just as dangerous as it was in my day, except that the misery and suffering are on a much wider scale. As for human nature, it‘s as tawdry as ever. - P187
It‘s the maids. He sees them in the distance, heading our way. They make him nervous. They make him restless. Thev cause him pain. They make him want to be anywhere and anyone else. - P189
Run isn‘t quite accurate. Their legs don‘t move. Their still-twitching feet don‘t touch the ground. - P190
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