“You can never go home.<\/p>\n
When Odysseus finally wakes up on the island he longed for twenty years, he doesn\u2019t realize it. When he returns to his palace, no one except a dog recognizes him\u2014a king so missed yet so forgotten. And when, after the famous challenge with bow and arrow, he wipes out all his adversaries\u2014Penelope\u2019s suitors who\u2019ve lived off him for years\u2014at that moment as we sense everything is finally over, we realize that Odysseus is a new man at home and that, ultimately, his Ithaca no longer exists. But maybe it never really existed.”<\/p>\n