I’m on page 405 of 638 in Odysseus Wept’s second draft. As expected, this is taking quite a while, and I’ve yet to hit the uncharted waters of the last real burst of writing I did, where I know I left myself pockets of things to write, so the book’s likely only going to get longer.
I crossed over into Part Three of the book yesterday, so even I was surprised to see that Part Three is about half of the book.
Periodically, we’ve told people which books to reread in preparation for reading another one in the series and this time around, you can probably skip Resurrection but that may be it. Some of this book is a sequel to The Forsaken, so that comes with the territory, but I’ve mined little bits from all of what I’ve been thinking of as Phase Two of the Powysverse. Phase Two is everything that’s NOT included in the Powysverse Compendium (Vol. I).
There’s something of Jonathan Swift’s most famous work in this book. Less Homer than you might think, given the title.
This is not a book I think people will be reading in a single sitting.