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" The calypso music of Trinidad was originally used as a way of laughing at the greed, envy and vanity of the rich.
The calypso music of Trinidad was originally used as a tool to ridicule the greed, envy and vanity of the rich.
rigid "" And Minerva said, ""Father, son of Saturn, King of kings, if, then, the gods now mean that Ulysses should get home, we should first send Mercury to the Ogygian island to tell Calypso that we have made up our minds and that he is to return.
"" When he had thus spoken, he said to his son Mercury, ""Mercury, you are our messenger, go therefore and tell Calypso we have decreed that poor Ulysses is to return home.
He flew and flew over many a weary wave, but when at last he got to the island which was his journey's end, he left the sea and went on by land till he came to the cave where the nymph Calypso lived.
On this he took his leave, and Calypso went out to look for Ulysses, for she had heard Jove's message.
Meanwhile Calypso came back with some augers, so he bored holes with them and fitted the timbers together with bolts and rivets.
By and by Calypso brought him some linen to make the sails, and he made these too, excellently, making them fast with braces and sheets.
In four days he had completed the whole work, and on the fifth Calypso sent him from the island after washing him and giving him some clean clothes.
He never closed his eyes, but kept them fixed on the Pleiads, on late-setting Bootes, and on the Bear-which men also call the wain, and which turns round and round where it is, facing Orion, and alone never dipping into the stream of Oceanus-for Calypso had told him to keep this to his left.
I am afraid Calypso was right when she said I should have trouble by sea before I got back home.
For a long time Ulysses was under water, and it was all he could do to rise to the surface again, for the clothes Calypso had given him weighed him down; but at last he got his head above water and spat out the bitter brine that was running down his face in streams.
Ulysses got astride of one plank and rode upon it as if he were on horseback; he then took off the clothes Calypso had given him, bound Ino's veil under his arms, and plunged into the sea-meaning to swim on shore.
My brave comrades were drowned every man of them, but I stuck to the keel and was carried hither and thither for the space of nine days, till at last during the darkness of the tenth night the gods brought me to the Ogygian island where the great goddess Calypso lives.
""I stayed with Calypso seven years straight on end, and watered the good clothes she gave me with my tears during the whole time; but at last when the eighth year came round she bade me depart of her own free will, either because Jove had told her she must, or because she had changed her mind.
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