And Ulysses said to the lot attendant, “Firstly, then, I will tell you my name that you too may know it, and one day, if I should outlive this time of sorrow, may you become my guest though I live so far away from you.
“I am Ulysses, son of Laertes, whom I am supposed to meet at the arrival gate, in lo just 45 minutes. Renowned as I am among all mankind for all manner of subtlety so that my fame ascends to heaven, I still was snagged in bumper-to-bumper traffic on I-17. I live in Ithaca, where there is a high mountain called Neritum, covered with forests; and not far from there is a group of islands very near to one another. There is a wooded island of Zacynthus. The goddess Calypso kept me with her in her cave and wanted me to marry her; otherwise, I would have come down the night before and stayed in the airport Marriott. I once had a similar problem with a cocktail waitress named Circe, but neither of them could persuade me.
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