Back to the Odyssey which I’m still diligently reading before seeing the movie. Yesterday – the best scene so far, where Odysseus’s dog Argos is the only Ithacan to recognize him on his return. It’s been 20 years and Athena has disguised Odysseus as a scrawny down-and-out beggar for tactical reasons we won’t go into now but Argos knows right away. All the human characters – to say nothing of the gods – seem alien to me. But not Argos! Is there a through line from Argos to Chet, the non-talking narrator of the Chet and Bernie mysteries? Let’s not push this too far!