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“The big one,” he said. And then he got into a 1987 Dodge Dart with a woman named Calypso who sold tie-dyed leashes at the farmer’s market, and drove away.

Central to the film’s identity is its relationship with The Odyssey. George Clooney’s Everett McGill serves as a loquacious Ulysses, leading his companions Delmar and Pete through a gauntlet of mythological parallels. From the blind prophet on a handcar to the seductive sirens washing clothes in a river, and the one-eyed Bible salesman Big Dan Teague acting as the Cyclops, the film translates ancient Greek archetypes into the folklore of Mississippi. o 39-brother where art thou

My handwriting. From a diary I’d kept when I was twelve. Leo had stolen that diary, I remembered. He’d read it aloud at the dinner table until our mother threw a slipper at his head. “The big one,” he said