Daniel Mendelsohn
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599 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 16 Jul
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is time.
You know what time does to people.
And so the phenomenon that you've brought up about home and how what that means and can it mean the same thing all the time and all of that, which is complicated and emotional.
is sort of concretized at the end of the poem.
So, you know, a lot of people also know that when he finally gets home, he meets his wife again.
They haven't seen each other in twenty years.
Each of them has been enduring great trials during this time.
And they there's this famous moment where there he's been in disguise, right?
So she's not sure it's he.
She's very cold to him.
They have this sort of contest of wits.
And
That's the other half of the equation is because he has to prove to her.
And the climax of the poem, in a sense, is the secret information that he has that will prove to her.
That he is really who he says he is, right?
So, you know, in a certain sense you could get to the Odyssey and say, Ah, how great.
He has proved that he is the same person who left twenty years earlier.
On the other hand
How could he be the same person?
We know what's happened to him in these twenty years, and we also hear what's happened to her.
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