Opinion: How Pete Buttigieg stole Beto O’Rourke’s mojo
By Molly Roberts Molly Roberts Editorial writer covering technology and society Email Bio Follow Editorial Writer April 10 at 2:46 PM Beto O’Rourke was supposed to be the hero. So who’s this other guy making all the headlines?
Buttigieg, on the other hand, doesn’t have any kids with his husband, Chasten. If he did, though, Ulysses might be his top pick, “balls” be damned. The Harvard grad, Rhodes scholar and Navy veteran has told interviewers that James Joyce’s modernist masterpiece is “the basis" for his politics. “Every word was pulled out of me,” O’Rourke said of an early speech during his Senate campaign last year against Ted Cruz. “Like, by some greater force.”
In “Ulysses,” on the other hand, complication is key. Joyce both mimics and mocks the heroic narrative — chronicling his protagonist’s travels to the outhouse instead of across wine-dark seas. Odysseus is traded out for Leopold Bloom, who is more or less a loser in the way all of us are more or less losers, and a hero in the way all of us are heroes. The novel aims to capture the fullness of humanity not in the extraordinary, but in the ordinary.
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