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I get a lot of people telling me that they hate how much the iliad drags on with all these little bloodlines of each person who does but like

It FUCKS ME UP. Like. Here is a man who lived, a prince maybe, a son, a father, who had just gotten married, whose wife waits across the sea. Here is a taste of his life. Watched it be dashed against the ground.

Here is a boy, a trojan soldier. He has yet to be wed. His father waits for him to return home. He is speared on the battleground. His father weeps

There is a king kissing the palms of the man who killed his son. There is a soldier whose mother will never be able to hold again. There are these pieces of lives that bleed red