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  • Because it is Friday, a Joseph Conrad bat signal<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  • A pair of Irish researchers have determined that Homer\u2019s epics are (partially) based in fact<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019re not saying that this or that actually happened, or even that the individual people portrayed in the stories are real … We are saying that the overall society (that emerges from the stories) and interactions between characters seem realistic.\u201d<\/li>\n
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      Because it is Friday, a Joseph Conrad bat signal. 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