No-Stalgia
A Point of View
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Odesseus - A Novel of the Human Condition
In japan, there is an aesthetic concept called mono no aware. This embraces the wistfulness and melancholy to be found in contemplating that just as all things arise, so they must pass. The foundational literary work of our culture is an inact ment of nestalgia after his decade fighting in the trojan wars. One way of viewing the odyssey is that it's a sustained allegory of the human condition.
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