title: Odysseus: The Epic Myth of the Hero
author:  Marc Ladewig 
description: Marc Ladewig is a native Californian and the father of two grown children. He is a swimmer, veteran, world traveler, mandolin player, language teacher and life long lover of poetry.
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  # Hubertus in Flight
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Paul Alverdes
  
  
  This page copyright © 2002 Munsey's.
  
  
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  A FEW years ago I was spending the last weeks of Advent with some
  
  
  cousins of mine at their shooting-box on the northern spurs of the
  
  
  Thuringian forest. It was there that I got to know Hubertus. My
  
  
  reason to-day for giving some impression of his personality and of all
  
  
  that he told me about himself is that he seemed to me a very
  
  
  characteristic mixture of all the elements of this distracted age, even
  
  
  though in him they were not fixed but in a state rather of continual
  
  
  effervescence and ferment. I have never seen him again since those
  
  
  days, but I heard of his death recently. He was shot through the
  
  
  forehead in a duel with the husband of a woman with whom he was in
  
  
  love, and I can imagine that his end was not unwelcome to him.
  
  
  It was very soon clear to me why my cousins, two jolly, wine- and
  
  
  card-lovin