The Nobody ruse exploits the giant’s boastful brutality
Evidence
But he boomed back at me from his ruthless heart, ‘Nobody? I’ll eat Nobody last of all his friends — I’ll eat the others first! That’s my gift to you!’ — Homer; Robert Fagles; Bernard Knox, The Odyssey, 1957
Categorization
- XREF: The pun on ‘nobody’ doubles as a feat of oral trickery and bonds with modern trickster archetypes (e.g., the unnamed protagonist in tale-types). — connects to: Being named Nobody makes Odysseus countable as nonexistent to the Cyclops