Miscellany
Summerland is not a tenth so inventive as it seems to like to imagine it is, and I’m tempted to give up on it.
I’m looking forward to seeing “A Mighty Wind” this weekend.
Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About finally came in at the library, and is in my hot little hands.
A panhandler had a fresh approach tonight: he needed money for bike parts. I gave him some.
There are a lot of different versions of Prometheus’ story, but I was surprised to find that it seems that it was not for giving fire to humanity that he was sentenced to having his liver eaten out daily.
I just received a safety recall notice for my uninterruptible power supply. In the corner of the postcard, under the company’s logo is the trademarked slogan: “legendary reliability.”
Where did you find the version of the Prometheus myth that you mentioned?
Posted by Jimcat on April 18 2003 05:40
Whoa, was _Summerland_ supposed to be inventive? I missed that entirely. I thought it was supposed to be Sweet.
Posted by Mris on April 18 2003 08:55
That panhandler had you seriously sized up.
Posted by Tari Elensar on April 18 2003 12:02
"I gave him some." -- Money or bike parts?
Posted by T.B. on April 18 2003 21:54
Jim: "Where did you find the version of the Prometheus myth that you mentioned?"
one, two, three, and this summary of Aeschylus' "Prometheus Bound".
Prometheus was already on Zeus' shit list for abetting humans in keeping the good parts of their sacrifice, stealing fire, and refusing the gift of Pandora as a wife, and in most of the versions he was already chained to the cliff for these, but the thing that got him sentenced to being a bottomless bag of Eagle Chow was that he prophesied Zeus would be overthrown by one of his children (a bit of a sore point with Zeus, this story being set in the early days after he'd deposed his own father) and refused to tell him by which.
Marissa: "Whoa, was Summerland supposed to be inventive? I missed that entirely. I thought it was supposed to be Sweet."
Yeah, my reading of it was that we were supposed to be bowled over by his fairly humdrum recycling of fantasy tropes. I did slog through, though, and I found the climax to be original.
Tari: "That panhandler had you seriously sized up."
Yup. I was even in pedestrian drag, and not hauling my bike bags and helmet like usual.
T.B.: "Money or bike parts?"
Heh. Money.
Posted by Zed on April 21 2003 22:35