AtD 432-433 Lindsay's Odyssey

[Jasper Fidget]

Anybody else think of Homer's Odyssey in the scene where Lindsay 
Noseworth travels to regroup with the Chums after his psych analysis:

"'When have I kept it a secret that my governing desire in life is to be 
no longer one, but two'" (432)

Odysseus sets out to rejoin his wife.

"Presently, from just over the dune to his left, Lindsay heard someone 
calling his name.
"'Yes do stop for a moment Lindsay' added a voice from the other side of 
the track, whose source was no more visible.
"'We have messages for you,' hissed an augmented choir of voices."
(432)
[...]
"'You must leave this track you were told never to step from, come to 
us, just over this dune--'
'I shall wait here'"
(433)

Is beset by sirens but maintains his resolve.  Then finding his crew at 
last:

"he rode in to find the rest of the crew, lying around experiencing the 
effects of the water here, which, somewhat odd-tasting but far from 
actually poisonous, was in fact much preferred, by the large population 
of travelers out here who knew of it, to either aryq or hasheesh, as a 
facilitator of passage between worlds." (433)

A bunch of lotus eaters.

This is the second Homer allusion I've seen (see also "blood-red dirt" 
p. 269).  But I'm not sure why, if not only to augment the storytelling 
motif.  Any ideas?