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camwynOne more inevitable sign that you're me:
You go to the bookstore, thinking you'll get a stupid little kiddy book of basic Greek myths that you can use as an inexpensive, easy reader reference for an rpg plot... And the first book you see on Greek myths all but leaps into your hands.
And while it IS a nice, easily read book, it's three hundred pages long, and it's by a respected Hungarian classical scholar. And it is almost certainly reference material for your other scholarly book on the subject, the one by Walter Burkart or however you spell his name.
Oh, well.
You go to the bookstore, thinking you'll get a stupid little kiddy book of basic Greek myths that you can use as an inexpensive, easy reader reference for an rpg plot... And the first book you see on Greek myths all but leaps into your hands.
And while it IS a nice, easily read book, it's three hundred pages long, and it's by a respected Hungarian classical scholar. And it is almost certainly reference material for your other scholarly book on the subject, the one by Walter Burkart or however you spell his name.
Oh, well.
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Date: 2007-07-07 06:55 pm (UTC)That's awesome.
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Date: 2007-07-07 07:14 pm (UTC)If you need a good kid's book of Greek myths, get d'Aulaires. I grew up reading those, and they're great -- very simple, and very elegant.
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Date: 2007-07-09 08:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-09 08:23 am (UTC)Anyway, saw this, thought immediately of you:
http://xkcd.com/c180.html