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Odysseus landed with his men on the land of the lotus eaters where his men joined in with the natives and began to eat the lotus too which made them intoxicated and not caring to help Odysseus get back home so he waited until they fell asleep and carried them aboard his ship one by one toget his men away from these lotus which were twisting their minds and keeping Odysseus from the job in hand which was to get home he needed his men awake and alert and the lotus were preventing that from ever happening .

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