Go read Homer's Odyssey. If you can, find the translation by Robert Fagles. Read it pretty much at your own pace, but do at least a "book" a day. It's a biggie and you don't want to read it on the computer, so get a hard copy. I think I might have left a copy upstairs in your room.
Meanwhile, I'm going to try to find a sweet article by C.S. Lewis, which has currently evaded my grasp. It's called "Bluspels and Flalansferes: A Semantic Nightmare," and is in the book Selected Literary Essays (1969, ed. by Walter Hooper). Maybe the library has that book. If you have to go to the library to get the Odyssey, see if you can find the Lewis thing too. It's sweet.
A quick question for your comments: what makes something "literature," as opposed to just "fiction" ? What do you think?
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