Why is this a trope? I don't get it.https://twitter.com/324_B21/status/715753356220899328 …
@GailSimone there was a superb essay by @catvalente once about the underlying current of this back to Homer but it seems to be gone forever.
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@chaosprime@GailSimone Not sure what happened to it on my site but here’s some of it: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/420505-while-epic-fantasy-is-based-on-the-fairy-tale-of … -
@womzilla@catvalente@GailSimone it's actually a different one i was thinking of! the "I'm no Ulysses" piece -
@chaosprime@catvalente@GailSimone wait, that's what I Googled... let me investigate -
@womzilla@catvalente@GailSimone it used to live here: http://www.catherynnemvalente.com/essays/choose_life/ … this is a chunky quotation from it: http://discordianquotes.com/quote/fact-im-odysseus-id-chair-olympus-chariot-driven … -
@womzilla@catvalente@GailSimone oh, but i have a URL so that's fine. here we go! http://web.archive.org/web/20120217134111/http://www.catherynnemvalente.com/essays/choose_life/ … -
@chaosprime the very thing I was doing when I went into a tunnel and lost connectivity.... -
@womzilla naturally. :) i love that piece so many times, you don't even know. cat5 should really resurrect it on her site.
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