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‘The Odyssey’ will just keep showing you the world,” observes Todd Almond, who adapted the ancient poem into a modern one-man show, “I’m Almost There,” which he will perform at the Ancram Center for the Arts August 7-16. Almond doesn’t identify the neighborhood where his piece is set, but he lived for 15 years in the East Village, and pictures it there—in that refuge for artists and tattooed misfits.