Listening to Richard P. Martin of the Stanford Classics Department discuss “Odysseus in Silicon Valley” during his 45th Stanford reunion.
“Stanford is an island like Ithaca and you have all, like Odysseus, made a journey home,” Martin told an audience of alumni attending their reunions at Stanford University.
“If the voyager Odysseus time traveled to Silicon Valley he’d have chosen to be reincarnated as the wandering entrepreneurial warrior/hero Steve Jobs seduced by the siren Joan Baez in the early 1980s,” posited The Idiot. (Photo: Sharon Bowers)
About Joel
Joel Stratte-McClure has been a global trekker since the 1970s. He lived in France for over 30 years, working as a journalist, before he turned his attention to a unique life-time-project of walking the shores of the Mediterranean. The first 4,401 kilometers are explored in his inspirational and entertaining first book "The Idiot and the Odyssey: Walking the Mediterranean." The next 4,401 kilometers are covered in the gods-filled sequel, "The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Madness and Magic on the Mediterranean,” published on Valentine's Day 2013. The last 4,401 kilometers will be discussed in the last book of the trilogy currently entitled "The Idiot and the Odyssey III: Alexander the Great Walks the Mediterranean."
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