If a Flash file is made too big and has too much movement, the synchronization between sound and visual tracks begins to slip. It is very noticeable in lip-sync but it can also affect sound FX which are placed to give emphasis.

We are limited to uploading two .swf files within each 24 hour period at New Grounds. In its original setting on my website Book 22 looks like a comic book page with 8 jpeg thumbs linked to the Flash. In that setting you can get the story just a bit quicker than Homer's speed at your own choice of order. There was a speed reading of Iliad at a New York Gallery recently. It took a bit less than 24 hours with readers spelling off each other to get through it. At around 600 pages in small type it's a big book. Iliad was not meant to be listened to in one sitting... that's what that says to me. Iliad is like the American foundation cycle of revolutionary myths; Iliad, which is one of the Greek foundation myths, is not necessarily told in chronological order... crazy hey?

That is the epic, oral pome for you. It isn't today; it is about 2,800 years to the time Homer lived and had it written down and another 800 (or so, it's hard to tell) years before that when the Greek warriors sat around campfires at Troy and made up songs out of the day's events. What is that (let's see 0 + 0 carry the 0) around 3 or 4 thousand years ago?

I can write that, "it is like a radio play" but that doesn't exactly capture how archaic the story really is and how alien it is from what we are used to. Even though it is so old and so alien we can still understand the motivations of the characters and feel for them... you know, if you are into feelings for others. That is amazing!