Odyssey – Quotes

Writing to me is

Writing to me is a voyage, an odyssey, a discovery, because I’m never certain of precisely what I will find. Gabriel Fielding

Go over to Greece with the Iliad and Odyssey. These have elements of history, and they have non-historical elements. It’s very difficult to pull them apart. And I think there’s not much reason to. Elie Wiesel

Sharona Muir has written

Sharona Muir has written a gripping personal memoir about her odyssey to rediscover and reclaim her father. Along the way she uncovers some hard truths about the heroic founders of Israel and the Beginnings of Israeli science. The Book of Telling keeps in all the fears and resentments and consolations and warmth of such a … Read more

Lily white’s petals are

Lily white’s petals are at my feet anticipating the moment in which adventure and odyssey meet. Delano Johnson

I heard about Bhagavad

I heard about Bhagavad Gita very early in my childhood, from the age of five onwards. It was one of the earliest things I started to read when I started to read. And it was very much a part of my consciousness. In the beginning, I saw the Bhagavad Gita as a text that was … Read more

I think it’s like

I think it’s like that for people who don’t remember 1969 first-hand. It’s that sense of ‘old hat.’ Of ‘been there, done that.’ Space shuttles, space stations, communications satellites, GPS – they’re all part of our everyday, taken-for-granted world in 2009, not part of an incredible odyssey. David Weber

The Bible is forbidding

The Bible is forbidding when you start to read it. The language is odd. The stories start and stop herkily-jerkily. The characters behave in inexplicable ways. It takes a little bit of time to get into the rhythm of the book. I found reading the first 15 chapters of Genesis very very difficult. Once I … Read more

No ancient story, not

No ancient story, not even Homer’s Iliad or Odyssey, has remained as popular through the course of time. The story of Rama appears as old as civilization and has a fresh appeal for every generation. David Frawley

I find that readers

I find that readers are very interested in how things are translated. I just turned in the first part of this father-son Odyssey, and there is a part when I digress and explain that the name Odysseus is related to the word for pain. Like -odyne in the word anodyne, pain. It’s the same, -odyne … Read more

What if The Odyssey

What if The Odyssey has no more validity or authenticity than one of the other stories that you hear Odysseus telling? Whoever created The Odyssey was incredibly hip to stuff that we think, in our post-modernist, post-structuralist era, we’re uncovering for the first time; but we aren’t. Daniel Mendelsohn