Read this excerpt from "the city without us": the notion that someday nature could swallow whole something so colossal and concrete as a modern city doesn't slide easily into our imaginations. the sheer titanic presence of a new york city resists efforts to picture it wasting away. the events of september 2001 showed only what human beings with explosive hardware can do, not crude processes like erosion or rot. . nevertheless, the time it would take nature to rid itself of what urbanity has wrought may be less than we might suspect. ( 1 ) which idea is repeated more than once in the excerpt? a. the september 11 attacks demonstrate humanity's destructiveness. b. the time nature would need to reclaim the city is very short. c. nature conquering a whole city is hard to imagine. d. explosive hardware and erosion and rot are similar processes.

But this, but you – small, pitiful and twiggy – you put me down with wine, you blinded me. come back, odysseus, and i'll treat you well, praying the god of earthquake to befriend you – his son i am, for he by his avowal fathered me, and, if he will, he may heal me of this black wound – he and no other of all the happy gods or mortal men.' few words i shouted in reply to him: 'if i could take your life i would and take your time away, and hurl you down to hell! the god of earthquake could not heal you there! ' at this he stretched his hands out in his darkness toward the sky of stars, and prayed poseidon: 'o hear me, lord, blue girdler of the islands, if i am thine indeed, and thou art father: grant that odysseus, raider of cities, never see his home -the odyssey, homer what motivates cyclops to ask poseidon to interfere with odysseus's journey home?