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How can one individual's strength also be their greatest flaw?.. Noman?...

Odysseus lives in a society that takes emotion as credibility; persuasion over verification, pathos over raw empirical data.

Is Odysseus’s identity defined as who he is, or who society views him as [in each precise moment]?
- poor/helpless (Nausicaa)
- bringin’ sexyback (Alcinous & Arete)

Not a lot to say but we've been hyping Ithaca's fearless king -- intelligent, cunning, wise -- and he's sitting around moping like a Hot Topic pre-teen who didn't get Pierce the Veil tickets from Panic at the Disco...

Book IV

SHIFT
- Telemachus: seeking for truth; possessing knowledge
- Odysseus: we. have. answers.
- Antinous: actively on the hunt

PATTERNS
- Xenia: Menelaus welcoming Telemachus & Co.
- Who defines reality? (Helen drugs wine; Melenaus’ POV of Odysseus [narrative control])

TENSION
- Knowledge of Odysseus ripples; Ithaca in peril, family seeks hope, Antinous seeks death

SHIFT:
- Telemachus as an active listener
- Leadership as STRUCTURE [Ithaca v. Pylos]

PATTERN:
- Gods intervene fate
- Man's status by [re]framing history

TENSION:
- Can one gain power w/o failing?

"Even the gods cannot protect the people that they love..." -- Athena

Chap. 1: it’s 1801 and Lockwood meets Mr. Heathcliff. Is he dark metaphorically or dark like Denzel?

I need a palette cleanser in-between the horrors of Yanagihara’s “A Little Life”, so why not learn about a show I love-love-love?

TikTok warned me of the upsetting imagery and trigger warning of suicidal thoughts, self-harm, sexual abuse (adult and child), psychological manipulation, gaslighting, addiction, grief, etc.

… but I feel this is where it starts to rev up on the upsetting moments.

Just tell him to not do it again. Don’t make him go through that.

Jesus freaking Christ — digging into more of the events surrounding Jude‘s New Year’s Eve incident, and Andy’s thought process. Genuinely feel bad for Jude, especially when he broke Harold‘s — God, c’mon… give him a break…

Jude & Malcolm & JB & Willem… The Postman, Chap. 1: what the heck happened to Jude? What did his first (and only) social worker Ana know?

What mysteries lie beneath the history of Jude’s life?…