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Falsehoods all, but he gave his falsehoods all the ring of truth. As she listened on, her tears flowed and soaked her cheeks as the heavy snow melts down from the high mountain ridges, snow the West Wind piles there and the warm East Wind thaws and the snow, melting, swells the rivers to overflow their banks— so she dissolved in tears, streaming down her lovely cheeks, weeping for him, her husband, sitting there beside her. Odysseus’ heart went out to his grief-stricken wife but under his lids his eyes remained stock-still— they might have been horn or iron— his guile fought back his tears. BK 19 (Robert Fagles translation) Shoutout to L'odissea (1968) for positing the concept that Penelope's hurt and anger is what fully steels her resolve to issue the bow challenge song: I know those eyes/this man is dead from the count of monte cristo The rest of the song doesn't fit as much haha, specifically because Dantes is telling Mercedes that t
