Apologies for the *very* long delay to respond... I've kinda neglected many emails/posts this last two weeks...
Where olives are concerned, I don't often eat them myself. Usually I eat them only on such similar outings, but the ones I had happened to taste before this time were much sweeter, or atleast non-bitter. As mentioned before, it seems some varieties of olive are naturally bitter and I had simply lucked out earlier. :-)
And as for Theseus -- hoo boy, I had once made a reasonably long ramble about him and even that one was missing out a lot more I could have said. You can go to this page: http://www.s8.org/cgi-bin/ag_read.cgi?New_Olympians,_The, and search for the words "ramble about Theseus" in order to find my post.
In that ramble, I presented Theseus as a really disfunctional *villain*. :-) I had based that opinion of mine based on tidbits from real mythology not very often heard (as the fact that when himself was 50 he kidnapped 12-year old Helen, and according to some versions raped her) but partly I admit I was also basing it on the ("Gargoyles"-fandom related) assumption that the Minotaur wasn't actually eating any people, which makes that whole excursion of Theseus a bit unjustified... :-)
*g* Spinning that assumption of villainy further on, I also imagined (a tidbit I don't mention in that ramble I linked) that Theseus' black sails which led to Denethor's Aegeus' death, were actually a intentional signal to some conspirator in Athens to arrange for that convenient "suicide" which coincided with Theseus triumphant return to the city...
I really turned Theseus into a villain in my mind in that one. :-)
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Re: So your father's a Hercules fan I take it
Date: 2004-06-15 07:19 pm (UTC)Where olives are concerned, I don't often eat them myself. Usually I eat them only on such similar outings, but the ones I had happened to taste before this time were much sweeter, or atleast non-bitter. As mentioned before, it seems some varieties of olive are naturally bitter and I had simply lucked out earlier. :-)
And as for Theseus -- hoo boy, I had once made a reasonably long ramble about him and even that one was missing out a lot more I could have said. You can go to this page: http://www.s8.org/cgi-bin/ag_read.cgi?New_Olympians,_The, and search for the words "ramble about Theseus" in order to find my post.
In that ramble, I presented Theseus as a really disfunctional *villain*. :-) I had based that opinion of mine based on tidbits from real mythology not very often heard (as the fact that when himself was 50 he kidnapped 12-year old Helen, and according to some versions raped her) but partly I admit I was also basing it on the ("Gargoyles"-fandom related) assumption that the Minotaur wasn't actually eating any people, which makes that whole excursion of Theseus a bit unjustified... :-)
*g* Spinning that assumption of villainy further on, I also imagined (a tidbit I don't mention in that ramble I linked) that Theseus' black sails which led to
Denethor'sAegeus' death, were actually a intentional signal to some conspirator in Athens to arrange for that convenient "suicide" which coincided with Theseus triumphant return to the city...I really turned Theseus into a villain in my mind in that one. :-)