Odyssey: Conflict and Th

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lead the excerpt from Part $4$ of The Odyssey.

here, as the whirlpool drank the tide, a billow ossed me$,$ and I sprang for the great fig tree, catching on like a bat under a bough.

Nowhere had I to stand, no way of climbing. the root and bole being far below, and far above my head the branches and their leaves, massed, overshadowing Charybdis pool.