One of my favorite songs by Steely Dan frontman Donald Fagen. I might call this science fiction pop music, something I think Fagen might do the best.
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Journey
But whom does this bring peace? The classic war between a passion and responsibility is never finished, and has been the same to the sea-wanderer and the one on shore, now wriggling on his sandals to walk home, since Troy sighed its last flame, and the blind giant’s boulder heaved the trough from which the [...]
The Sea Call
When Odysseus met Tieresias in the underworld, the prophet told him that he would reach home, but would then take another journey to a land where people live who know nothing of the sea. In this excerpt from a modern sequel to the Odyssey by the twentieth-century Greek poet Nicos Kazantzakis, Odysseus has returned to [...]
The Odyssey: General Notes
Homer’s Odyssey has got to be — still after multiple readings — one of my favorite works of Western Literature. This epic is a nostos, or a story of return, and asks can one come home again, especially after years of bloody war?