这个旅行计划旨在通过聆听荷马史诗《奥德赛》和詹姆斯·乔伊斯的《尤利西斯》 audiobook，结合实地考察，深入理解两部文学巨著与印度加尔各答和土耳其伊斯坦布尔的历史文化背景。计划包括在加尔各答和伊斯坦布尔分别停留至少四天，体验当地生活，并通过行走和聆听的方式，将文学与现实相结合，最终形成深刻的个人感悟。

📚 在加尔各答和伊斯坦布尔分别停留至少四天，体验当地生活，并通过行走和聆听的方式，将文学与现实相结合，最终形成深刻的个人感悟。

🗣️ 在前往加尔各答的途中，完整聆听《奥德赛》 audiobook，为后续的实地考察做好准备。

🏘️ 在加尔各答，围绕城市行走，每天聆听《尤利西斯》 audiobook 十小时，连续三天，记录所有疑问和观察，并在完成后向专家或顶级 AI 寻求解答。

🚢 在从加尔各答到伊斯坦布尔的路途中，聆听关于《尤利西斯》的课程，加深理解，为再次聆听做好准备。

🕌 在伊斯坦布尔，同样每天聆听《尤利西斯》 audiobook 十小时，连续三天，同时行走于不同的街区，乘坐博斯普鲁斯海峡轮渡，观察伊斯坦布尔与都柏林的相似之处，记录所有疑问和观察，并在完成后向专家或顶级 AI 寻求解答。

Book a flight to Kolkata India, and from Kolkata to Istanbul, for at least four days each, between February and April.Rent a home-stay room on College Street in Kolkata, and in the Balat neighborhood of Istanbul.Get wired over-the-ear headphones, a phone with a headphone jack and long battery life, and walking shoes.Download The Odyssey audiobook, translated by Emily Wilson, read by Claire Danes. Length: 13 hours.Download two different audiobook recordings of Ulysses by James Joyce. Length: 30 hours each.Download a course about Ulysses. Length: 12 hours.On the way to Kolkata, listen to the Odyssey, start to finish.Learn about Kolkata’s Bengali identity, languages, its colonial past as the capital of British India, the Writers’ Building, the Victoria Memorial, Boi Para, and reputation as the literary capital of India.In Kolkata, walk around the city, listening to the Ulysses audiobook for ten hours per day, three days in a row, start to finish.Record (write or voice memo) all of your questions and observations.When done, ask everything to an expert or top-tier AI.Save the answers to re-read later.While travelling from Kolkata to Istanbul, listen to the course about Ulysses, for more understanding and layers of meaning, preparing you to listen again.Learn about Istanbul’s past rulers, mixed identities and languages, juxtaposition of the sacred and commercial, and note its proximity to Aegean Sea of the Odyssey.In Istanbul, listen to the other recording of Ulysses, ten hours a day, three days in a row, start to finish, while walking around the vastly different neighborhoods, taking a ferry across the Bosphorus, noticing the similarities between Istanbul’s call to prayer and Dublin’s church bells.This time you’ll have a deeper appreciation of the book.Record all of your questions and observations.Again, when done, ask everything to an expert or top-tier AI.Re-read the previous answers now, too.Back home, post pictures, videos, the GPS map of where you walked while listening, and especially your thoughts.

(I haven’t done this yet, but plan to.I listened to that Odyssey audiobook in two days of walking around Port Meadow, Oxford, and have been yearning to listen again.)