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    From James Nicoll@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 27 14:11:30 2024
    Five Works About Extended Trips and Unexpected Delays

    In honor of a Starliner crew recapitulating Willem Van der Veckan's
    career arc, five travellers whose trips were unexpectedly extended.

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  • From Don@21:1/5 to James Nicoll on Tue Aug 27 16:01:11 2024
    James Nicoll wrote:
    Five Works About Extended Trips and Unexpected Delays

    In honor of a Starliner crew recapitulating Willem Van der Veckan's
    career arc, five travellers whose trips were unexpectedly extended.

    https://reactormag.com/five-works-about-extended-trips-and-unexpected-delays/

    "one might expect Odysseus to rush back to his beloved wife Penelope."

    Francis "Shakespeare" Bacon's essay "Of Marriage and Single Life" [1]
    used Ulysses to exemplify how romance interferes with productivity:

    vetulam suam praetulit immortalitati

    In other words, the better choice, as Bacon sees it, is for Ulysses to
    accept Calypso's offer of immortality and forget about Penelope.
    Bacon sacrificed for the greater good, as he saw it. "The smartest
    man who never lived" gave up both his legacy and place in history to try
    to establish an eternal empire. [2]

    Note.

    [1] <http://public-library.uk/ebooks/31/42.pdf>
    [2] <https://thehiddenlifeisbest.com/post/episode-10>

    Danke,

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  • From Ted Nolan @21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 27 21:19:15 2024
    In article <lj6u3dFno6dU1@mid.individual.net>,
    Ted Nolan <tednolan> <tednolan> wrote:
    In article <valep5$34jhh$1@dont-email.me>,
    William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
    James Nicoll wrote:
    Five Works About Extended Trips and Unexpected Delays

    In honor of a Starliner crew recapitulating Willem Van der Veckan's
    career arc, five travellers whose trips were unexpectedly extended.

    https://reactormag.com/five-works-about-extended-trips-and-unexpected-delays/

    In "Eyes of the Overworld" Cugel is twice transported to the other side
    of the world, once as punishment, once as a result of his
    over-estimation of his magical abilities, the latter providing fodder
    for Gygax.

    I've not read them, but isn't Dumarest (?) the protagonist of E.C.
    Tubb's long series, trying to find his way back to earth?


    He is, although like Cugel he didn't set out to go on a trip.

    Spoiler: He did eventually got back but then Tubb died, so we still
    don't know how a lot of the plotlines would have worked out.
    --

    "He did eventually got back". Sheesh. "Get".

    Although I suppose many of his doomed ladyfriends did "got back".
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    columbiaclosings.com
    What's not in Columbia anymore..

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  • From Ted Nolan @21:1/5 to wthyde1953@gmail.com on Tue Aug 27 21:17:33 2024
    In article <valep5$34jhh$1@dont-email.me>,
    William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
    James Nicoll wrote:
    Five Works About Extended Trips and Unexpected Delays

    In honor of a Starliner crew recapitulating Willem Van der Veckan's
    career arc, five travellers whose trips were unexpectedly extended.

    https://reactormag.com/five-works-about-extended-trips-and-unexpected-delays/

    In "Eyes of the Overworld" Cugel is twice transported to the other side
    of the world, once as punishment, once as a result of his
    over-estimation of his magical abilities, the latter providing fodder
    for Gygax.

    I've not read them, but isn't Dumarest (?) the protagonist of E.C.
    Tubb's long series, trying to find his way back to earth?


    He is, although like Cugel he didn't set out to go on a trip.

    Spoiler: He did eventually got back but then Tubb died, so we still
    don't know how a lot of the plotlines would have worked out.
    --
    columbiaclosings.com
    What's not in Columbia anymore..

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