Before the voyage and wreck of the Calypso, I spent some time fighting wildfires. One morning I found myself in a smoke-shadowed forest at the head of a little valley. I had lost my way.
Works:
Dante, Inferno, translation by Allan Mandelbaum
Virgil, Aeneid
Camus, “The Myth of Sisyphus,” translation by Justin O’Brien
Book of Job, New Revised Standard Version
Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice

Before the voyage and wreck of the Calypso, I spent some time fighting wildfires. One morning I found myself in a smoke-shadowed forest at the head of a little valley. I had lost my way. Works: Dante, Inferno, translation by Allan Mandelbaum Virgil, Aeneid Camus, “The Myth of Sisyphus,” translation by Justin O’Brien Book of Job, New Revised Standard Version Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice

3: Fire

Classicist Jim Abbot explores the nature and possibilities of hope — in an era of climate change, pandemic, and political dysfunction — through storytelling. Each episode of "Hope: A Fable" is a new story, featuring a protagonist on a lifelong search for hope, and all the people he meets along the way.

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