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The Disguise
A returned person may have to enter as someone else.
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Athena disguises Odysseus as a beggar. Gods disguise themselves as strangers to test xenia. Disguise is not always trickery against the innocent; it is sometimes the only safe form of a king in a captured house.
Penelope has her own covering: speech, delay, the ruse of the shroud. Not a costume. A practice.
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Beggar in the hall; weaver in the house.
The Odyssey