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...project himself 'extraordinary distances through a narrow path. He's disciplined, stoical, able to become the instrument of his own will, has extraordinary boldness and daring together with a resolute lack of imagination. He's profoundly nihilistic. And this nihilism found its perfect expression in the odyssey to the moon-because we went there without knowing why we went...
...Arthur Clarke's space odyssey 2001, the most intriguing character is not flesh and blood but an extraordinary computer called HAL (for Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer). Amazingly lifelike, HAL speaks with flawless diction, calmly disposes of almost any problem and-when it turns "psychotic"-does the same to most of the human crew. Could Clarke's fantasy also be prophecy? Perhaps. In a chilling augury of the cybernetic future, scientists at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have now created a computer that in some ways approaches HAL's versatility. In at least one vital respect...
...Levin really cares about his students," he said. "He's a magnificent teacher. And Finley (who taught half of Hum 2 at the time) is one of the reasons I'm in classics. I've never heard a better lecturer than Finley on 'The Odyssey...
...Nixon Agonistes is about Nixon the way that the Odyssey is about Odysseus- the title character appears at the beginning, shows up for a grand finale, and occasionally gets mentioned in the middle. The author has used his title character as a pretext to talk about what he really wants to explore, which is America, the American way of life, and American politics. Nixon is the model, the archetype, but America is the species under study...
...they do require an ability to relax one's everyday grip on externals and allow deep internal processes of the mind to surface. Recently TIME Religion Researcher Clare Mead visited the foundation. Without any stimulus except the direction of Dr. Houston, she underwent a half-hour-long "inner odyssey." Her account...