I have decided to let Homer ride shotgun. It was he, a supposedly blind minstrel nearly three millennia ago, who crafted the original hero’s journey. Odysseus’s was a practical quest--return home to his beloved isle of Ithaka after twenty years of war and wayward travel. But at heart, the voyage of Odysseus represents an intellectual adventure. For all the gods and monsters he encounters, his is a pilgrimage toward an understanding of humanity.

               excerpt from chapter one: High Noon