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The Odyssey and other returns (opens the original)
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I’m glad to be back to Substack after almost two months - I can’t even begin to give an account of my absence, and I won’t try to. I put off watching Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey until four weeks after its premiere. I knew what would happen: in the two weeks since I saw the film, I’ve been on several rabbit holes and read/watched abundant content brought up by the various algorithms, the contemporary equivalent of the Siren song. In all this content, the question often comes up: “When did you fir
Dear Fear (opens the original)
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