Jacke (Jack) Wilson

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The History of Literature · 817 The Odyssey - Getting Ready for a Summer Blockbuster | My Last Book with Mary Beard · 16 Jul 2026 podcast

Were you able to to come to that or did you never quite bridge that gulf of he was going to read it one way and you were going to read it a different way?

Let me ask you a question because I am wrestling with this as I'm reading The Odyssey this time.

And you maybe have experienced this yourself or have seen other people experiencing it.

But when I first read it, I was 19.

I was in my first or second year of college.

And from age zero to age 18, I lived in the

same room in the same house in the same small town in Wisconsin.

And I knew what home was.

And when I was eighteen or nineteen,

And reading it, uh, I I could feel like, oh, this is what it would be like if another ten or twenty years passes and I was to return there.

But as I'm reading it now, uh, now that I haven't lived there for thirty or thirty five years, and I don't really know what home is for me.

And when I go back to visit my parents' house, it's changed so much.

And, you know, it feels like my home has been taken away.

And so I can only go back about three or four years.

It's like a moving target because, you know, home is kind of and I I kind of see it with my kids as well.

Like the my son said something the other day where I was talking about or was a a few months ago and I was talking about, Oh, you you know, when you get home from practice, we'll we'll build a fire and we can, you know, watch some uh football downstairs and and he said, Oh, that's really nice to come home to

And I thought he's got home.

I've given him this home, but I don't know that this house that I'm living in now is what would be my sort of home to return to.

So how do people I mean, in some ways I feel like I understood the book better when I was nineteen because I had such a strong sense of home than I do now, where I'm I'm not sure I can identify with this feeling

feeling of being deprived of home and then returning to it because I don't have a home.

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