Counter-Currents
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“And there was the Odyssey, whose vigorously sonorous, measured numbers gave an intimation of a vanished, clearly articulated and joyous life.” – Hermann Hesse[1]
“An easily forgotten fact of cultural history [is] the radical, white-to-black, up-and-then-down variations in the periodic estimates of men and works. . . . To the Renaissance, Cicero was the supreme man of letters; today he has been banished even from the classroom.“ — Jacques Barzun[2]
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I came away from the Odyssey with the idea Homer had a foot fetish, the way he repeats “Telemachus set his shiny foot.” Why does he repeat that of all things?
Did you notice, the scouring of the shire in lotr is taken from odysseus’s dealing with the suitors?
I love to frequent thrift shops and garage sales too. I often wonder how anyone can be bored with all the things you can find so cheaply these days in dvds, books, and audiobooks. I found a copy of Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks at the local thrift shop recently!
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