Which lines in this excerpt from book 12 of homer's odyssey reveal that the monster scylla cannot be defeated in battle, even by a great warrior such as ulysses?

ah, shun the horrid gulf! by scylla fly.
'tis better six to lose, than all to die.'

"i then: 'o nymph propitious to my prayer,
goddess divine, my guardian power, declare,
is the foul fiend from human vengeance freed?
or, if i rise in arms, can scylla bleed? '

"then she: 'o worn by toils, o broke in fight,
still are new toils and war thy dire delight?
will martial flames for ever fire thy mind,
and never, never be to heaven resign'd?

deathless the pest! impenetrably strong!
furious and fell, tremendous to behold!
e'en with a look she withers all the bold!
she mocks the weak attempts of human might;

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When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.

In the odyssey - teiresias, when teiresias describes the conflicts that odysseus will face, how do these conflicts relate to the story's theme? the conflicts describe the theme. the conflicts contrast with the theme. the conflicts reveal the theme. the conflicts hide the theme.