sentences:  In his 1892 lecture "The Humor of Homer" (collected in his "Selected Essays"), Samuel Butler concludes that Nausicaä was the real author of the "Odyssey", since the laundry scene is more realistic and plausible than many other scenes in the epic.His theory that the "Odyssey" was written by a woman was further developed in his 1897 book "The Authoress of the Odyssey".An episode in James Joyce's "Ulysses" echoes the Nausicaä story to a degree