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flatland of abstract visuality and one-way lineality. The Greeks,
says van Groningen (pp. 36­7), eagerly sought the past:
Odysseus is nowhere the adventurer who, drawn by the
unknown, likes to go farther and farther, who is charmed
by the coming events, and urged on by the mysteries of
the future to ever receding regions. Quite the contrary. He
only wants to go back; the past fascinates him; he wants
restoration of the things of the past, he travels by
compulsion, driven along by Poseidon’s wrath, Poseidon
the god of the strange and unknown land which attracts
the adventurers but terrifies Odysseus. This endless
wandering to him means adversity and misfortune; the
return, happiness and peace. The mysterious future
strikes agony into his heart; he has to steel himself
against it; but he feels safe with the past, with the