[Ads-l] cipher

[Jonathan Lighter]

'Symbol; metaphor.'

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/movies/articles/real-history-inspired-odyssey-152632141.htm
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The Cyclops, who hurls boulders at Odysseus and his men as they flee, was
later located in Sicily and has sometimes been read as a cipher for the
island's volcanic volatility, specifically Mount Etna.

JL

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