I think I have a similar interpretation, Susan. It hangs together quite well. We can be heretical together.
Hey, cool. I need more fellow heretics to hang out with. And it does hang together, IMO, especially if you see it as about 50% folk memory and 50% allegory--"Want to be like gods, you little hairless apes? Fine, but realize that with the power to create comes the power to destroy, and the power to dominate, and that there's not a one of you who's pure enough to never misuse your gifts."
At least, that's the Fall of Man according to Susan W.
"Want to be like gods, you little hairless apes? Fine, but realize that with the power to create comes the power to destroy, and the power to dominate, and that there's not a one of you who's pure enough to never misuse your gifts."
Cool -- that's the current JLU storyline!
That New Yorker article was fascinating -- especially the stuff about how it's not really genetics that sets people's height. I totally would have assumed that the reason the "average American" wasn't getting taller was because of shorter people immiigrating here.
When I was at Gettysburg a few weeks back, we marvelled at how TINY men were at that time. A lot of the uniforms on display wouldn't fit on my mom, and she's fairly small. Nutrition kinda sucked for them.
While researching the work-in-progress, I stumbled across some statistics about the enlisted men of Wellington's army. Average height was somewhere around 5'4" or 5'5". I'm not sure what the average height of a modern British man is, but it's something significantly above 5'5", or I'd have felt like a giant when I lived there.
Happy Birthday to Hec and Deb, and Deb's DH. Clearly an auspicious day for Birthdays.
I totally would have assumed that the reason the "average American" wasn't getting taller was because of shorter people immiigrating here.
So it's
not
the Man keeping you down?
While researching the work-in-progress, I stumbled across some statistics about the enlisted men of Wellington's army. Average height was somewhere around 5'4" or 5'5". I'm not sure what the average height of a modern British man is, but it's something significantly above 5'5", or I'd have felt like a giant when I lived there.
Yet all the Regency heroes are at least 6'.
That's a fascinating article. I particularly love this line: "a willowy Inuit is hard to find".
Ok, my temp job is right by a Gap, and I keep seeing guys in polos go by, with the collars flipped up.
This was the cool look when I was in 6th grade. Is it cool again, because it looks just as stupid as it did the first time.
STG, I see anyone pegging their jeans, I'ma go apeshit.
