All Societies Are Historical.

Ulysses Finds Himself Unchanged, Aside From His Experience, At The End Of His Odyssey.

Learning To Learn Is To Know How To Navigate In A Forest Of Facts, Ideas And Theories, A Proliferation Of Constantly Changing Items Of Knowledge. Learning To Learn Is To Know What To Ignore But At The Same Time Not Rejecting Innovation And Research.

One Can Easily Classify All Works Of Fiction Either As Descendants Of The Iliad Or Of The Odyssey.

When Ulysses Hears His Own Story Sung By An Epic Poet And Then He Reveals His Identity And The Poet Wants To Continue Singing, Ulysses Isn't Interested Any Longer. That's Very Astonishing.

Many Novelists Take Well-defined, Precise Characters, Whose Stories Are Sometimes Of Mediocre Interest, And Place Them In An Important Historical Context, Which Remains Secondary In Spite Of Everything.