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Now the book careens from The Odyssey and Fenelon’s The Adventures of Telemachus, which is his own inspired fan fiction novel. But then, oh my soul, it takes a new path in what seems the opposite direction toward In Search of Lost Time, which brings Proust into the circle of connectivity. Insights teem.

What a dense little book of literary craftsmanship. Illuminating in so many ways. As a student of Homer and the epic, I’m so drawn to his discursive imagination.

Part one is an examination of the ring technique Homer uses, in which “the narrative appears to meander away into a digression... although the digression turns out in the end to be a circle” back to the point of departure.