Daniel Mendelsohn
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599 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 16 Jul
Daniel Mendelsohn’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's on the one hand is a very emotional word, right?
When you think of the difference between house and home, right?
One is a very emotional word.
And yet it problematizes in exactly the way you are describing.
The fact that when you have been away for a long time.
Both you
The you that wants to go back home and the home.
have to be different from what you lift.
And the Odyssey is aware of that incredible
Poignancy.
about this most basic of human
feelings which is we want a home, it means something to us.
And yet, because time passes, the home that you go back to, as well as you yourself,
are never gonna be
The same.
And I think
So I I I think the experience you're having is extremely Odyssean, actually.
You know, and but I think the poem is very self-conscious about that.
You know, the older I get, I actually think what the Odyssey in a very sophisticated, almost
Modernistic with a capital M sense.
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