Unbelievable. We're done. Through. Finito. Ende. Odysseus is back in Ithaka. Quixote is Quexana again. Hamlet Prime has been avenged. Lizzy and Charles Darcy are living happily ever after. Dante's been to Hell and back. We've suffered though Montaigne's kidney stones and sailed out to the lighthouse. We've seen Leonidas stand and Troy fall. Oedipus and Raskolnikov have learned their lessons. Achilles has made his choice and so has Lt. Cross. Socrates has told us his secrets; Hamlet has kept his.
It's been my great pleasure and absolute privilege to be Virgil to your Dante, Don Quixote to your Sancho. Thank you for your good humor and willingness to play along. I looked forward to our sessions every week and would sign up, in a heartbeat, to take another ride with you all.
If you'd like to leave a thought or two about the course as a whole, please use the comments thread here to do so.
Wishing you all the best here at Columbia and undiscovered happiness out there on the wine-dark sea,
Jeff
I have no chair, nor church nor philosophy;
I lead no man to a dinner-table or library or exchange,
But each man and each woman of you I lead upon a knoll,
My left hand hooks you around the waist,
My right hand point to landscapes of continents, and a plain public
road.
Not I, not anyone else can travel that road for you,
You must travel it yourself.
It is not far...it is within reach...
-Uncle Walt

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