der Vorleser pg.173
I reread the Odyssey thinking, as I did in my school days, that it was a story of homecoming. But it is not a story of homecoming. How shall the Greeks, who knew that one cannot stand in the same river twice, believe in a homecoming? Odysseus did not return to stay, but to depart. The Odyssey is a story of movement; meaningful and pointless, successful and flawed.