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James Nicoll
2024-08-27 14:11:30 UTC
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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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Don
2024-08-27 16:01:11 UTC
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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>

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William Hyde
2024-08-27 20:59:58 UTC
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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?

William Hyde
Ted Nolan <tednolan>
2024-08-27 21:17:33 UTC
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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.
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Ted Nolan <tednolan>
2024-08-27 21:19:15 UTC
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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.
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"He did eventually got back". Sheesh. "Get".

Although I suppose many of his doomed ladyfriends did "got back".
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