Tired of Toading the Line: The Wind in the Willows and The Odyssey

In 1995, while in Angola, I read “The Odyssey”. I should of course have read it much younger, but there you go. In 2026, in butt-fuck nowhere England I read “The Wind in the Willows.” I should, of course…

Both are a delight, and deserve re-reading annually, I think. Anyway, the final chapter of TWitW is called “The Return of Ulysses” and involves a small band of brave (and brave-adjacent) souls battling larger numbers of usurpers to take back a rightful/big home. Grahame had apparently excelled at Greek and Latin at school…

Anyhoos, there’s this by one Landon Loftin

https://www.jstor.org/stable/48840386?seq=1

The Kuznets reference is this

Kuznets, Lois R. 1987. Kenneth Grahame. Twayne Publishers.