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How Does Ulysses Ability To Speak

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The book of Ulysses has many examples of physical and mental strength. This book mentions his amazingly useful ability to speak. He uses his ability to speak to escape a giant Cyclops and many others after that. I want to point out the use of his skill in the story of Calypso. In the tale of Calypso and Ulysses he is troubled by being forced to marry and live with calypso. He wants to leave this place to get home to Ithaca. Ulysses is unable to persuade her at first to let him even see his home, but Ulysses uses his speaking ability to get a crow to do the job. He goes to the crow and questions it to see if it can speak and then proceeds to begin a conversation with the bird by asking it if it was once a man. He then ask the bird to go to
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