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Moreover, Sartre is shown to be susceptible to hubris as he leads his army acquaintances through a conversational existential odyssey. They discuss such abstract notions as equality of all before death, the extraction of thought from words, the over-categorization of individuals to the point where they lose their humanity in the human context...
FORBIDDEN FRUIT temptation, and disaster. If not the oldest theme in literature, this series of action and reaction has certainly racked up one of the largest mileages. From the Book of Genesis and the Odyssey, to Romeo and Juliet and The Scarlet Letter, authors have been rascinated by the troubles people bring upon themselves when they reach for unknown wonders. But relating this theme to more substantial matter particularly history has never been easy, and indeed one must look hard for good examples...
...spiritual odyssey which lies at the heart of Davita's Harp begins one summer on Long Island. In order to escape the heat of the inner city, Ilana's parents rent a cottage on the beach next door to Anne's cousins, a recently widowed Orthodox Jew named Ezra Dinn and his young son, David. The sounds that come from the Dinn's house during the course of the summer, the Kaddish or prayer for the dead, the morning prayers and Sabbath hymns, catch Ilana's ear while she is sitting on the beach building sand castles or reading...
...flighty student at Sacramento City College, is having his moment in the media sun. He has appeared on the Tonight show ("Auckland is a really nice city," he told Johnny, describing his bus tour), and two major networks are said to be vying for the rights to his accidental odyssey...
Ebert: "Yes, Gene, I guess the overwhelming success of this modern Odyssey at the Cannes film festival just goes to prove the old adage: 'A prophet is not without honor save in his own country...