Day: October 12, 2019

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odyssey_summary That always confused me:  As husband and wife, Menelaos and Helen (Book IV) play upon the game of ambiguity–Helen tells Telemakhos the story of how she recognizes Odysseus, who has entered the city of Troy in disguise (and how she converses with him but does not give him away). She is not without shame,…

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subcognition: “In a world, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.” — Jean-Paul Sartre, Characterizations of Existentialism (via conceptvals) Satre-day