In this age of social media where so many want to get noticed, I can't help but think of Virginia Woolf's words, “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
Sorry, folks. You can’t fully grasp the Odyssey by seeing a film version! You also can’t comprehend it by reading it in a book. You have to hear it sung by a bard in dactylic hexameter while in such an ecstatic state of drunkenness, you channel the Muse and add your own lines.
In these "Towers of Babel" by contemporary Japanese graphic artist Minoru Nomata, we see an architecture of alienation where each tower evokes a sense of dystopian anxiety intensified by the utter absence of humans.
2nd recommended essay from my book collection:
'The Journey as Metaphor' by Northrop Frye
Erudite exploration of literary, mythological & religious journey metaphors: the journey of life/afterlife, the meandering way into oneself, the ascending of the mystical ladder/mountain.