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.
You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with until you understand who's in ruttin' command here.
Jayne ,'The Train Job'
The Great Write Way, Chapter Two: Twice upon a time...
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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
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.
deborah grabien - Mar 28, 2005 4:22:21 pm PST #880 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Oh, jebus, Tep. You're trying to kill me...
Pix - Mar 28, 2005 4:32:32 pm PST #881 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Okay, very deep breath. This one is very hard to write.
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Heaven is the gentleness. The security. The way he rocks me. It is, "Quit your job. Follow your dreams. I'm here," and "Go to sleep, baby," at 2AM, face still wet from nightmare tears. Heaven is knowing I never have to doubt or distrust or second-guess.
Hell is 200 days a year by myself. Never having a date to a wedding. Loneliness. It is, "So where is he this week?" and not knowing the answer. It is sleeping diagonally in the bed and listing my mother as my first emergency contact. Hell is knowing the heaven may not be enough.
Topic!Cindy - Mar 28, 2005 4:33:49 pm PST #882 of 10001
What is even happening?
Kristin. So powerful. I literally gulped, trying to respond.
Pix - Mar 28, 2005 4:34:41 pm PST #883 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Thanks Cindy. I'm crying a little, to tell you the truth. Needed to be written, though.