The Epic of Gilgamesh is probably the shortest book on my list (I am still wondering what possessed me to put Brothers Karamazov and War and Peace on there-in addition to reading Les Miserables with the Tea Table! I am not sure I can pull it off). The most interesting part for me was on Tablet Eleven which was concerned primarily with a myth of the great Flood. Though little was the same, a man was warned by the gods to build a boat, he filled it with provisions and animals, and after the rains ceased the boat came to rest on a mountaintop. While on the mountaintop the man sent out a dove, a raven, and other birds to see if the land was dry. Interesting.

Moving on as fast as I can–let’s see how quickly I can conquer Virgil’s The Aeneid. I am hoping to finish by May 1.