Their other dish […] contain'd a number of roast fowls—half a dozen, we suppose, & all roosters at this season no doubt.

What diverts me the most, continued Sir George, is, Ulysses being always called 'the much enduring man.' After all his ten years of wandering are past, pleasantly enough, the greater portion of them being spent with Circe and Calypso—to be sure, it was rather tiresome staying so long with the last—how he must have enjoyed his flirtation with the Phœnician princess!

Yeah, some guys like to eat the old hairy pie. Women, too, or so I've heard.

This interesting point seems to get lost a little within a lot of self-important waffle.