Trust in the Age of Proust

Flags, an art-show by the Scottish artist Andy Goldsworthy, Fort Mason, San Fransisco. Photo by the author, July 29, 2026

Of the woman I sat next to at the movie in Portland: she was watching “The Odyssey” starring Matt Damon and, as I already knew the story, I was watching her face instead.

It was a story of the movie she was watching it seems, not necessarily the story I remember of the classical world.