dragons in the girl's memory
I love that phrase.
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SailAweigh - Mar 28, 2005 2:44:10 am PST #870 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
deborah grabien - Mar 28, 2005 7:10:20 am PST #871 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
I love that phrase.
Which mythical creature was it whose teeth, if sown in a fertile field, grew into monsters?
Kind of like that.
Steph L. - Mar 28, 2005 7:13:07 am PST #872 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
FYI -- I'm buried under a pile of work, but I'll have the new challenge up shortly.
Nutty - Mar 28, 2005 7:33:21 am PST #873 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Which mythical creature was it whose teeth, if sown in a fertile field, grew into monsters?
Cadmus slew a dragon, and sowed its teeth in the ground, on orders from the gods. The teeth sprang up into warriors, who attacked each other; when only the toughest five were left alive, Cadmus nursed them back to health and led them in founding Greece.
That's the only teeth = seeds = something other than a plant story in my repertoire, but I'm sure there are others. (Actually, there's Momotaro, where a baby is born from a peach pit, but there aren't any teeth to start that story.)
SailAweigh - Mar 28, 2005 7:41:56 am PST #874 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
That's the one I was thinking of Nutty. I haven't read any mythology in such a long time, I'd forgotten the particulars.
deborah grabien - Mar 28, 2005 7:47:03 am PST #875 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Yep, Cadmus. I mentally pegged the metaphor as a negative, possibly because I first heard it as a kid, and it struck me as horrific: something that couldn't be killed, that if you planted dead bits of it, things grew.
Isn't it weird, how things transpose in our heads, and stay that way?
SailAweigh - Mar 28, 2005 7:50:21 am PST #876 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Just so, deb, just so.
Nutty - Mar 28, 2005 8:03:43 am PST #877 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
If plants I'd planted turned out to bear weapons and yell and chop at things, I would call that monstrous. (I don't know why they attacked each other instead of Cadmus; and while there is the overall positive outcome of founding Greece, I think there's plenty of potential for ugly subtext in the course of the story.)
And then there is the hydra, with the whole "cut off one head, and get two back!" I think they could only be worse if each decapitated head grew a whole new body, so by the end you were fighting 100 hydras. Actually, I am sure a video game somewhere has created just such a scenario.
deborah grabien - Mar 28, 2005 8:08:17 am PST #878 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Nutty, I do remember reading the hydra myth at about aged 12 or so, and wondering "Why didn't they just get flamethrowers?"
Man, I love metaphors, even when they bite my arse.
Steph L. - Mar 28, 2005 3:54:33 pm PST #879 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
....and 9 hours later, I finally follow through on my promise of a new topic:
Challenge #50 (describe someone through the contents of their desk/wallet/etc.) is now closed.
Challenge #51 is 2 simple words, on a not-so-simple topic: heaven and hell.
t edit You don't necessarily need to take the "and" literally -- it could also be "heaven OR hell." As always, up to all y'all.