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Homeric nod

A continuity error in a work of fiction. An allusion to the Greek poet Homer, whose epic poems contain several apparent errors in continuity. Though the film is being heralded by many as the director's masterpiece, there is a Homeric nod towards the end that is undeniably jarring.

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Even Homer nods sometimes I suppose; or perhaps the great and the good become complacent.

Justice should manifestly be done and seen be seen to be done

Even the great Homer nods, however, and Hendry couldn't make it nine out of nine.

Snooker: Hendry tuning up for world title tilt; Two century breaks in Slaithwaite exhibition

Horace's Quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus ("Sometimes even old Homer nods")?

She says "cabernet," I say "cabaret," let's call the whole thing off

If Homer nods, it is in the conclusion: "Gone forever was the talk of replicating other civilizations--a new Rome or a new Athens, even a new London.

April 1865: The Month That Saved America

"Even Homer nods" is a salutary alternative to the prospect of works of literature as ideological doomsday machines that must, on principle, deconstruct themselves.

Puzzling Stories

121 Homer nods several times: line 9 should read 'that odd sting'; in line 38 Byron writes 'Pymalion' for 'Pygmalion', and even his spelling does not extend to 'beseeech' in line 42.

Lord Byron: The Prisoner of Chillon and Don Juan Canto IX: A Facsimile of the Original Draft Manuscripts in the Beinecke Library of Yale University

In 'Homer Nods Too' (JNZL 9), Maurice Shadbolt places himself on a direct line of descent from Homer.

Correspondence

It is to Horace that we owe the observation that even the splendid Homer nods occasionally, and to our own experience that not only great works of literature but important bodies of work by major writers have their low points.