Word: odysseus
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...first attested reading period in Western literature occurs in Homer's Odyssey, where Odysseus, is kept on Kalypso's island in preparation for his upcoming examination. This is one of the more idyllic reading periods in literature. We can see that it was not always cold and heartless during reading period in the following passage, where Hermes comes to tell Kalypso it's time for Odysseus's exam period to begin...
...money, and finally retired at 41 with an ambition that seemed to have blown into his skull like an owl through an open window. He wanted to find Troy, the fortified city to which Paris abducted Helen, and which the Achaean heroes Menelaus, Agamemnon, Ajax, Achilles and Odysseus be sieged for ten years...
...Carney's mournful Popeye face is to encounter the resignation of an aging bullfighter contemplating his last fight. Only this time Art has won both ears and the tail. He was the surprise winner of an Oscar for his gentle, ruminative portrayal of a 72-year-old Odysseus adrift with his orange cat in Harry and Tonto...
Some actors never escape that first big part. Take Yul Brynner, for instance, who keeps time-warping back to his regal role in The King and I. Now touring in a new musical, Odyssey, in which he stars as Odysseus, Brynner has had his secretary send prospective hotels a list of his accommodation needs. Among his demands: "King-size bed in master bedroom (one mattress only, not two). [Room] must be utterly blacked out so as not a sliver of light can enter ... Suite must be immaculate ... Accommodations cannot be within one floor of conventioneers ... A gross of extra wooden...
...Most of Kafka's work was not published until after he died; he spent a good deal of his life as a lawyer specializing in insurance. Davenport is able to penetrate this shy, reflective character quite sensitively. As Kafka is traveling in a boat to Italy he thinks of Odysseus and then of his more successful relatives...