Open the Door, Homer

Source:

"Open the Door, Homer" from The Basement Tapes (1975)

Quote:

Open the door, Homer. / I've heard it said before. / Open the door, Homer. / I've heard it said before. / But I ain't gonna hear it said no more.

Comments:

Homer (ca. 725 BC) is the author of two classical Greek epic poems about the Trojan War, the Iliad and the Odyssey. Scholars have long debated whether Homer was blind, whether the same man authored both poems . . . or whether he ever existed in the first place.

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