…all these things go on. On one level it's that on another level it's the trojan war and the peregrinations of Odysseus in the eastern Mediterranean and then there are several other levels. Well, everything gives off vibrations of its metaphorical or…

…a sort of private religion of intelligence. It isn't how good you are, it's how wily you are, which was the greek virtue of Odysseus, you know, that was always his epitaph or his epithet was. He was wily. Ulysses. Reality is some kind of maze. It isn't…

…fantastic humanism of the 16th century. The original and natural idea of knowledge is that of cunning or the possession of wits. Odysseus is the original type of thinker, a man of many ideas who could overcome the Cyclops and achieve a significant triumph…

…fantastic humanism of the 16th century. The original and natural idea of knowledge is that of cunning or the possession of wits. Odysseus is the original type of thinker, a man of many ideas who could overcome the cyclops and achieve a significant triumph…

…thinking about his weird relationship and the 20th century and science and medicine and all this stuff. And he, on another level, is Odysseus, visiting the various ports of call in the Iliad. And so into the mundane life of this irish jew in 1906 comes…