Tag: Odysseus
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Odysseus and the fear of “Nobody”… [OR: The primitive against the new, OR: The fear of the abyss]
Do you fear being nobody? Odysseus (the “new”, the “logical”) once fooled Cyclops (the “primitive”, the “irrational”) by being “nobody”. But upon escaping he felt the need to say to cyclops his name. He was too afraid of nothingness, too afraid that he would actually be engulfed by the primitive he so easily fooled. [Carl…
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Pigeons, Ithaka, weird tales…
The mystery of the “Bermuda Triangle” of the homing pigeon world may have been solved. For years, scientists have been baffled as to why the usually excellent navigators get lost when released from a particular site in New York State. The puzzle of the vanishing pigeons began in the 1960s. Professor Bill Keeton from Cornell…
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