>>>Who is your favorite mythical character, and why?
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>>>Mine is probably Procrustes. He ruled a forest and trespassers were punished by being tied to a bed of a certain length. If they were shorter than the length of the bed, they were stretched out until they fit. If they were taller, some of them was chopped off. We still see references to Procrustean bed arguments.
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>>>Honorable mention: Icarus, the boy who flew too close to the sun.
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>>I'm actually surprised that no one mentioned Homer's Odysseus yet.... how I hated reading those books in school! :o)
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>Oddly enough, a new translation sold a lot of copies a few years ago. I don't know if they were all read or just bought ;-)
I think there was some confusion and people thought it had something to do with The Simpsons.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
