lotus-eaters

Obama is not the first writer to see Hawaii as the land of the lotus-eaters.

Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011

The Nothingness held him and would not yield him up, although, could Michael have journeyed a ten-days 'steamer-journey into the South Pacific to the Marquesas, Steward he would have found, and, along with him, Kwaque and the Ancient Mariner, all three living like lotus-eaters on the beach-paradise of Taiohae.

CHAPTER XXXV 2010

Obama is not the first writer to see Hawaii as the land of the lotus-eaters.

Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011

Before he completes his heroic cycle, Obama will confront green-eyed seductresses, Sirens, blind seers, lotus-eaters, the “ghosts” of the underworld, the God-guide Hermes, and about a half-dozen sundry “demons.”

Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011

Before he completes his heroic cycle, Obama will confront green-eyed seductresses, Sirens, blind seers, lotus-eaters, the “ghosts” of the underworld, the God-guide Hermes, and about a half-dozen sundry “demons.”

Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011

  I'm really leaving the warmth … I'm really going down to that garish place to drink with those lotus-eaters … Surely I am mad.

A Tragedy In Three Acts (St. Petersburg Blues) 2010

It must have required colossal strength of purpose for Odysseus and his men to leave the restful island of the lotus-eaters.

Amy Hertz: On Sloth and Other Virtues 2010

The danger of the lotus-eaters was not to the crew but to the so-called cultural values of triumph and return.

Amy Hertz: On Sloth and Other Virtues 2010

There is something languid in their postures; they are lotus-eaters fading in the intense light.

Elegance in the Ordinary William Meyers 2010

There is something languid in their postures; they are lotus-eaters fading in the intense light.

Elegance in the Ordinary William Meyers 2010