Who says the following and why? "[d]reams are hard to unravel, wayward, drifting things— not all we glimpse in them will come to pass . . two gates there are for our evanescent dreams, one is made of ivory, the other made of horn.

Penelope answers this to Odysseus who is disguised as a beggar. This dialogue is from Book 19, The Odyssey. Penelope is still waiting for her husband, Odysseus, to come back from his adventures. Odysseus ,finally, comes back but desguises himself as a beggar because he has seen a lot of rude noblemen at the door of his palace. Odysseus thinks they will steal him from his throne. Penelope lets " this beggar" in and takes him to her private chamber. Penelope asks the beggar to interprete her dream about the geese. Although "the beggar's" interpretation is related  to Odysseus'  return, Penelope answers : " Dreams are hard to..."

love, how my life is right now. you can be loved and can love others. sometimes you dont feel loved right now, dont worry, someone out there is loving you while you are away.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.