Daniel Mendelsohn
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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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World, but as you said, and I wanna underscore this as well.
It was also very important to have plainness.
The language I use is very plain.
It's not fancy.
It's not, you know, anyone reading the first ten lines will see that right away.
It's it's not fancy.
It's not poetic.
So it was a hard balance to strike.
You know, between because that's the gr famous paradox about Homer, which is that he is simultaneously very poetic, but his language is plain.
The way he thinks is plain, there's nothing pretentious, there's nothing fancy about it at all.
So balancing those two things, the stiffness in the collar, but also plain spokenness was something I'd have worked really hard in trying to sort of
hammer out a a kind of English that would work.
So if you thought that, I'm happy.
Yeah, it was a little daunting, I have to say.
But you know, it's funny because they approached me about taking the project on only a few months after I had published my memoir about reading the Odyssey with my dad.
And so
It was still very much in my head and that's why I took it on, you know, slightly, you know.
dazzled, but I thought right now it's a good time to start this because I've been thinking so hard about the Odyssey for this other book for such a long time.
But it was
I knew who Chicago was.
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