How does one connect Homer’s Odyssey with StoryPathing?  Remarkably, Homer introduces the hero of the story in a state of abject defeat.  The reason for this is that the beginning of the story starts here; that is, it serves as the beginning of Odysseus telling his own story as a means to his eventual return home.

This connection wasn’t clear to me until I ran across the following quote from Charles S. Pierce in Logic of Events, published in 1898:

“We start, then, with nothing, pure zero.  But this is not the nothing of negation . . . It is the germinal nothing, in which the whole universe is involved or foreshadowed.  As such, it is absolutely undefined and unlimited possibility—boundless possibility.”

StoryPathing is all about possibility.  In Odysseus’ case, as in our own, it is the possibility that is about to unfold in the telling of the story.