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From: Don <g@crcomp.net>
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five Works About Extended Trips and Unexpected Delays
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 16:01:11 -0000 (UTC)
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James Nicoll wrote:
> Five Works About Extended Trips and Unexpected Delays
>
> In honor of a Starliner crew recapitulating Willem Van der Veckan's
> career arc, five travellers whose trips were unexpectedly extended.
>
> https://reactormag.com/five-works-about-extended-trips-and-unexpected-delays/

    "one might expect Odysseus to rush back to his beloved wife Penelope."

Francis "Shakespeare" Bacon's essay "Of Marriage and Single Life" [1]
used Ulysses to exemplify how romance interferes with productivity:

    vetulam suam praetulit immortalitati

In other words, the better choice, as Bacon sees it, is for Ulysses to
accept Calypso's offer of immortality and forget about Penelope.
    Bacon sacrificed for the greater good, as he saw it. "The smartest
man who never lived" gave up both his legacy and place in history to try
to establish an eternal empire. [2]

Note.

[1] <http://public-library.uk/ebooks/31/42.pdf>
[2] <https://thehiddenlifeisbest.com/post/episode-10>

Danke,

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