"brush up on Ulysses, you'll be needing it"

[bbobs2]

The write and director of Black Ops 2 Dave Anthony has tweeted the following:

"Raul Menendez says "brush up on Ulysses, you'll be needing it""

https://twitter.com/PrisonerKAR120C

Well then what do you guys think of this....

Also just to say that this was re-tweeted by Treyarch Studios so I am pretty sure that this is legit.

ALSO as said in this post viewtopic.php?f=81&t=23063&p=221970&hilit=Ulysses#p221970

Raul mentions in the New World vid a proverb from the Ulysses Poem so I am starting to think this has a HUGE part to do with the story, maybe we have seen Raul before..... :o

[bbobs2]

*Edit: Firstly sorry for this VERY long part down the bottom but I've just seen the it can be both a Novel or a poem. These have both been put down below. So why do you think we'll be needing it:

Just been looking at Ulysses can be a Novel & a poem:

Novel:

Ulysses is one day in the life of two men, Leopold Bloom and Stephen

Dedalus. The two men will cross paths many times during the day, but

will only meet each other toward the end of the book. It's basically

"about" life, like many novels. Joyce tried to cram in everything he knew

about human nature into one book, so there's sex, marriage, religion,

politics, philosophy, literature, Jews and Greeks as cultural types.

It's a big book that muses on the big themes of life.

But the plot isn't really what you read it for. You read it to witness Joyce

and his utter command of the English language. He changes styles often, some sections are written in a stream-of-consciousness style,

others as a play, or newspaper headlines, one section is written only

in questions and answers. It's the stream-of-consciousness parts that

most people remember; he puts you in the head of the characters so

thoroughly that you will know them as well as your friends by the end.

(http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index ... 415AAiLjxt)

Poem:

It little profits that an idle king,

By this still hearth, among these barren crags,

Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole

Unequal laws unto a savage race,

That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.

I cannot rest from travel; I will drink

Life to the lees. All times I have enjoy'd

Greatly, have suffer'd greatly, both with those

That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when

Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades

Vext the dim sea. I am become a name;

For always roaming with a hungry heart

Much have I seen and known,-- cities of men

And manners, climates, councils, governments,

Myself not least, but honor'd of them all,--

And drunk delight of battle with my peers,

Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy.

I am a part of all that I have met;

Yet all experience is an arch wherethro'

Gleams that untravell'd world whose margin fades

For ever and for ever when I move.

How dull it is to pause, to make an end,

To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use!

As tho' to breathe were life! Life piled on life

Were all too little, and of one to me

Little remains; but every hour is saved

>From that eternal silence, something more,

A bringer of new things; and vile it were

For some three suns to store and hoard myself,

And this gray spirit yearning in desire

To follow knowledge like a sinking star,

Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.

This is my son, mine own Telemachus,

to whom I leave the sceptre and the isle,--

Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfill

This labor, by slow prudence to make mild

A rugged people, and thro' soft degrees

Subdue them to the useful and the good.

Most blameless is he, centred in the sphere

Of common duties, decent not to fail

In offices of tenderness, and pay

Meet adoration to my household gods,

When I am gone. He works his work, I mine.

There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail;

There gloom the dark, broad seas. My mariners,

Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me,--

That ever with a frolic welcome took

The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed

Free hearts, free foreheads,-- you and I are old;

Old age hath yet his honor and his toil.

Death closes all; but something ere the end,

Some work of noble note, may yet be done,

Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.

The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks;

The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs; the deep

Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends.

'T is not too late to seek a newer world.

Push off, and sitting well in order smite

The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds

To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths

Of all the western stars, until I die.

It may be that the gulfs will wash us down;

It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,

And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.

Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'

We are not now that strength which in old days

Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are,--

One equal temper of heroic hearts,

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

(http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ulysses-2/)

[John]

What they mean by brushing up on Ulyssess, is most likely because Raul Menendez will be delivering his virals (On the Cordis Die Youtube Page) In verses from Ulysses' poems. For example, the first viral from the Cordis Die Youtube Page was the following video:

New World

The video is actually an excerpt from the poem "Ulysses" written by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Here is the poem;

http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~keith/poems/Ulysses.html

And here is the exact location of the excerpt from the poem, towards the end of it.

What I'm guessing is that the next virals will be delivered in excerpts from the Ulysses poem, or maybe from similar works. From the first poem, I think we can easily infer that Menendez or whoever is speaking in the video, is encouraging the "99%" to join him in establishing a new government, and creating a new world.

[Clcyuely]

I am so interested in your post

[Daveyjone]

Like to point out Ulysses is the original greek name for Odysseus Perhaps it is simply a reference to the Odyssey. In fact, Tennyson's poem is based on the tale of odysseus, hence the desire to seek his home, the new world across the sea, and references to characters such as Achillies.