Daniel Mendelsohn
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599 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 16 Jul
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Now he's a middle-aged guy of forty-five instead of a young guy of twenty-five, say.
She's a a woman approaching middle-age too.
So, you know, the punchline of the Odyssey turns out to be a sleight of hand because when they finally
Come together.
proving that they are the same, we know that they are the same, but also inevitably different.
And that I think is what the Odyssey is really about.
I think it is very sophisticated about a paradoxical phenomenon that we all know as as humans.
And yet we we have to resolve in this magical thinking sort of way.
And you were just describing it when you started out asking this question, which is that.
We simultaneously feel that we are always the same to ourselves, right?
You are always you.
as you go through life and yet we
А та сам там.
And those two
strands twine around each other.
And the Odyssey is about that, that you you are the same person who left in some fundamental way, but you can't be the same person when you come home.
And I think a lot of the poignancy of the Odyssey
resides in that paradox.
Right.
I think the scene with the dog, the sort of point, so to speak, of the scene is that there is something essential.
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