If you believe Mendelsohn, it's incoherent.
Mendelsohn's father was a mathematician,
though, and he often expressed disappointment at his son's lack of mathematical ability.
Mendelsohn's reflections show that our fathers are not open books,
nor are they to be interpreted simply as we please.
Mendelsohn's father regretted stopping high school
Latin before reading Virgil's Aeneid, sweetly telling his son“You can read it for me.”.
At age eighty-one, Mendelsohn's father wants to take the freshman seminar
on The Odyssey that his son teaches at Bard College.
Mendelsohn's father was not particularly open with his son,
but even when fathers are open and honest they still keep secrets.
In An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic, Daniel Mendelsohn gives a moving account of his relationship with his father.
Mendelsohn observed his father interacting with his students and was embarrassed,
thinking that the students found the old man to be nothing but a cranky distraction.
In the case of the Aeneid, Mendelsohn was going to read it anyway as a Classics major in college-
it was not a burden his father placed on him.
Mendelsohn says,“A father makes his son out of his flesh
and out of his mind and then shapes him with his ambitions and dreams, with his cruelties and failures,
Architects such as Bruno Taut, Erich Mendelsohn and Hans Poelzig turned to New Objectivity's straightforward,
functionally minded, matter-of-fact approach to construction, which became known in Germany as Neues Bauen("New Building").
Like many birds of prey,” observe John Sinclair and John Mendelsohn,“ the tawny eagle is not
averse to carrion and is quite often among the first arrivals at a fresh kill.”.
Mendelsohn had thought that much of his father's inward
disposition resulted from growing up in a small apartment, but after his father's death an uncle revealed that such was not the case.
When a mission on a ruin-strewn planet goes south, Danvers ends up being
taken prisoner by the Skrull general Talos(Ben Mendelsohn), who whisks her away on his spaceship
and straps her upside down into a contraption that decodes repressed memories.