Sunday, February 26, 2012

One Last Walk Through

Here are the secrets of my memory palace that I used for my list of Odyssey characters on Wednesday.  I just thought I'd take one last walk through before I clear out the palace for our test on Monday.

1. Odysseus: Protagonist.  Walking up my driveway, returning home from his journey.
2. Penelope: Wife.  A woman wearing a pineapple shirt that greets Odysseus at my front door.
3.  Circe: Witch that turns men to pigs.  Circe is wearing a witch hat in my brother's room because his room was always a pig sty.
4.  Calypso: sea nymph.  In my sea-blue room.
5.  Agamemnon: king killed by his wife.  An egg sits in my bathtub that is filled with blood.
6.  Telemachus: son.  My brother wearing a sun shirt using the telephone in my parent's bedroom.
7.  Anticlea: mother.  Woman made of clay sitting on my mother's side of the bed.
8.  Laertes:  father.  My father LAYing on his side of his bed.
9.  Achilles: hero of Troy.  A giant heel/foot perched on the Trojan horse sitting on a recliner in my living room.
10.  Tiresias: blind prophet.  A man's tie holding a white cane in another living room recliner.
11.  Alcinous:  King of the Phaecians.  A giant nose on a face sitting on the left end of the couch.
12.  Nestor:  King of Pylos.  A nest resting in a pile of blankets on the right end of the couch.
13.  Menelaus:  King of Sparta.  A man sitting on the left side of the loves-seat wearing a purple and gold Hawaiian lay (the school colors of my high school- the Spartans).
14.  Helen:  Wife of Menelaus.  Sitting next to him on the love-seat wearing a shirt that says Hell.
15.  Eumeaus:  Swine herd.  Standing at the kitchen counter cooking a ham and wearing an apron that says "You may kiss the cook."
16.  Eurycleia:  Old Maid.  An old maid standing at the stove cooking with a clay pot.
17.  Melanthius:  traitorous goat herd.   A goat sitting on the floor of the kitchen crying (he's MELancholy).
18. Antinous: Lead suitor.  A giant ant wearing a suit sitting at my father's place at the table.
19.  Eurymachus:  deceitful suitor.  A macho man wearing a suit with a snake wrapped around his arm sitting at the table.
20.  Polyphemus: cylops.  A cyclops with many femurs sitting at the table.
21.  Hermes:  messenger god.  Opening the back door to deliver mail.
22.  Apollo: sun god.  The sun-emblem on our patio wall.
23.  Athena:  goddess of wisdom.  An owl (her symbol) sitting at the bird-feeder eating thistle.
24.  Aphrodite: goddess of love.  A dove with an afro sitting at the other bird-feeder eating a heart.
25.  Poseidon: god of the sea.  Our poisoned water fountain.
26.  Zeus: god of thunder.   A lightning bolt with the word "zoo" engraved on it sitting in our porch rocker.

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