Chris Best (@cb): "Boring: they ruined it by giving Odysseus a conscience Interesting: they ruined it by making Odysseus conscious"

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Chris Best

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@cb

Boring: they ruined it by giving Odysseus a conscience

Interesting: they ruined it by making Odysseus conscious

Mills Baker

Jul 19

you can tell Substack has gotten too big and basic because not a single Jaynes head has posted a furious screed about the absurdity of unicameral minds in a Homeric story, an issue next to which all other criticisms are trivial

Jul 27

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7:13 PM

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