Steven Pressfield

And so he wrote out for me, my friend Paul,

the invocation of the muse from, he typed it out on his Remington manual typewriter, the invocation of the muse from the Odyssey, from Homer's Odyssey, translation by T.E.

Lawrence.

And I've kept that, it burned up in the fire, lost it in the fire, but I've kept that for like 50 years.

And every morning before I sit down to work, I say that prayer and

you know, out loud and in full earnest, you know, God has helped me.

And I'm absolutely a believer in that, you know, that ideas come from another place.

And it's our job, and I don't think it's just subconscious.

It's our job to open the pipeline and get out of the way.

Yeah, it was a sad thing to lose that, you know.

But, you know, it's in my head, you know.

How long is it?

It was on one page, double spaced.

I would say it takes, to recite it, it takes maybe 90 seconds.

I'll call up just the opening of it because the middle part is Homer sort of describing the whole story of the Odyssey.

But it starts like this.

It goes, Oh, divine poesie.

Goddess, daughter of Zeus, sustain for me this song of the various-minded man, meaning Odysseus.

And then he kind of goes on to talk about da-da-da-da.

And at the end it says, make this tale live for us in all its many bearings, O muse.