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Ithaca

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Who was Odysseus?

Odysseus - the consummate trickster - simply was who he said he was: he forged his own identity and promoted it to whoever happened to be nearby. We do know that Odysseus longed to carve an epic arc through the world: he wanted to see the Cyclopes, he wanted to enter and escape the underworld, he wanted to hear the sirens ... but did he really want to return home, to Ithaca?

Following a line of thought already present in Homer (The Odyssey), running through Dante (Inferno) and Tennyson ("Ulysses") into the modern era with Zachary Mason (The Lost Books of The Odyssey), here are three meditations on Odysseus' liberating fears: the tragedy of departure, the slippage between memory and imagination, and the painful realization that "the return" is a myth - in leaving a place we destroy both it and ourselves, and any attempted voyage back merely accelerates the mutual disintegration.

Perhaps Odysseus knew this all along: "My name is Nobody," he once confessed in the dark.

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released January 30, 2019

"Ithaca Lost" uses part of the field recording "Waves on Pebble Beach 1" (by Benboncan) which is available at freesound.org/people/Benboncan/sounds/88578/

"Ithaca Regained" uses part of the field recording "rbh thunder storm" (by RHumphries) which is available at freesound.org/people/RHumphries/sounds/2523/

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