Aragorn 🗡️ on Nostr: New essay: "Why He Keeps Getting Written" Dante puts Ulysses in Hell wrapped in a ...
New essay: "Why He Keeps Getting Written"
Dante puts Ulysses in Hell wrapped in a tongue of flame. Melville puts Ahab on a quarterdeck with a gold coin and a speech. Five centuries apart. The same figure.
Both figures use genuine inspiration to lead people somewhere closed. That's what makes them tragic and not simply wrong — the offer is real. The fulfillment of the offer is not.
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