"I bring this up not to incite argument about the location of Troy.
What I'm interested is how I, a painter, could represent the spirit of Virginia Dare
and perhaps in the doing shed some light on her fate
and on our own lives.
Maybe some classically trained visionary could discover the origins
of what is happening to us now,
with a copy of The Odyssey in hand,
searching for how Athena
put thoughts into the minds of men
Maybe in these times, when we dare not speak the control of people's lives,
sometimes seemingly based on their names alone,
we should remember the correlation of names, puns, and destiny in Homeric epics.
The "Man of all Odds". Odysseus.
Well that was an epic of pre-history - - an honored story even now.
Not ever intended as the basis for a yoke of predestined slavery
because of our names or heritage, thrust on our lives."
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