Jeremy LoCurto

Technology, books and the cosmos

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Buena Vista Park, windy Golden Hour. Hard to believe it was once a giant sand dune before the city planted thousands of trees there in the 1890s.

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5/ personally - I enjoyed the movie, but I will ALWAYS prefer Dante’s Odysseus, even if the questing drive for knowledge lands us all in the Eighth Circle of Hell 🔥🔥🔥

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I saw Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey today and cannot stop thinking about Canto XXVI of the Inferno, because both Dante and Nolan choose to extend Homer’s tale with an epilogue beyond Ithaca… 🧵

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4/Art is always a lens into the values, beliefs, and paradigms of the age that made it. What does Nolan’s ending say about this moment? I wonder if underneath the historicity critique, what many are objecting to is the morality of resignation.

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3/The Nolan Odysseus is weighed down by the weariness of a declining civilization; rather than continue the search for truth, he ends in a distinctly non-Homeric posture of resignation, Stage 5 in the Big Cycle.

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2/Spoilers below…Nolan bends Odysseus’ moral arc in a cynical direction. His Odysseus is chastened, remorseful, self-exiling, fleeing the coming apocalypse. Dante’s Odysseus remains a searcher, Nolan’s is exhausted, giving up on the world like the elves sailing to Valinor.

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1/Dante’s Odysseus cannot quench his drive for knowledge. The man of twists and turns leaves son, wife, and kingdom to continue westward in an unbounded quest for truth. He prefigures the Enlightenment ideal, the intellectual hero who breaks every boundary in pursuit of discovery

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Kelly saw shadows and reflections of buildings and began to paint stuff like this #sfmoma