The Cattle of the Sun! Madeline said loudly. You keep talking about how it’s the only one of Odysseus’ adventures to be mentioned in the proem, how they ate the cows and sheep, and they all had to die. So we know it’s important—you know from the start that this is a big deal, how eating something you’ve been told not to eat gets this really vicious punishment. So it’s like what happens to the Suitors, that they all have to be killed, even the nice ones, is foreshadowed all along. Jack said, I still think it’s pretty harsh. My father suddenly chimed in from his corner. No. A crime is a crime.
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