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Elliot Ackerman on Storytelling and the Cyclical Nature of History

The Daily Stoic

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Gatsby and the Iliad

In both, you know, catcher and Gatsby, there's stories of two people kind of trying to come back from war. And with catcher and the rye, he's trying to get to the duck pond. Cold and Caulfield doesn't get there. So I would say those are books that are more derivative of the, youknow, the, the tradition of the Odyssey.

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