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...Mason is himself a bold writer, and “The Lost Books” moves deftly and confidently out of the realm of adaptation into its own imagined ground. His sentences, brawny and lithe, add their own muscle to Homer’s verse. “When he was drunk, Achilles would take his knife and try to pierce his hand, or, if he was very drunk, his heart, and thereby were the delicate blades of many daggers broken,” he writes of the reckless hero...
...here named “Mr. O.”) living in a sanatorium, where he spends his days trying to remember a distant war. Another has him as Agamemnon’s prized assassin, faced with the unfortunate order of killing himself. Sticking with the pretext of fragmentation, Mason never fully fleshes out the action in each tale. As a result, his stories elude simple interpretation...
...times, Mason takes up the epic’s loose ends, giving voice to Homer’s minor characters. The Cyclops, who in Homer’s tale finds himself blinded and beguiled by Odysseus’s wit, tells his own account of the hero’s visit here. As he traces his loss of sight, the Cyclops sheds light on the duplicity of appearance. He says of his offender, “He had not uttered a single true word, of course, but we are all revealed in our lies...
Despite Harvard’s surge, the Bulldogs snatched the momentum and blew open the game with three unanswered goals. Yale’s Brendan Mason gave his team a 3-2 lead, when a shot on the power play deflected off a Crimson defenseman and past Carroll. Tom Dignard’s high slapshot on a two-man advantage then extended the Eli lead. For Yale’s fifth goal, Broc Little put the game out of reach with an individual effort where he beat a Crimson blueliner down the ice and lofted a shot over the shoulder...
...Mason Brunnick winning the 200 freestyle was huge,” Gray said. “He came up and beat [Princeton] in an event that they were definitely supposed...