From the ridiculous to the sublime we move to the immortal words of Aeschylus and his Prometheus Trilogy. With inspiration taken from Hesiod's Theogeny, Aeschylus rewove the legend of Prometheus who stole fire from the Gods to give to humankind that they may save themselves from the wrath of Zeus.
Prometheus Bound was the first play and details the eponymous protagonist's initial thievery and eventual capture, his punishment was to be chained to a rock and have his continually regenerating liver pecked out every morning by an eagle.
The sun's rays insinuate themselves oleaginously over the horizon and I can feel Promethius's trepidation keenly as I wake from the couch that is my rock and my blurred eyes adjust to the flickering laptop screen that is my sun. I wonder what textual holocaust mine eyes will befall across the intellectual wasteland of our forums, the merest sift through the detritus of the IST brings the eagle's shadow upon me.
Prometheus Unbound is the second play in the Promethiia and could incorrectly be called a sequel and I have no doubt you will. Hercules, who you'll recognize from the Walt Disney movie of the same name, comes to the rescue of Prometheus and slays the eagle that has kept him in torment.
There were but eleven surviving fragments of this play, scholars have tirelessly scoured ancient manuscripts and pieced together that which they could, for the next generation to pass onto the next, thus forming a link back to when Prometheus himself first stole that burning ember and passed it onto us.
Prometheus the Fire-Bringer is the end of the story and is that most tragic of tragedies. Just one line, one sentence of this play remains intact and I offer it to you here, in this place, that you may read it and if, by some miracle, understand it, you might better learn your place in this universe of ours and your importance therein:
'Qatar 2022 World Cup organisers have already proposed air-conditioned stadiums to stem the summer heat, but a forward thinking bunch - perhaps inspired by TV show The Simpsons - are taking it one step further by designing cloud-like craft that will hover between stadiums and the sun.'
Fuck you censorship. You can kill my rep but unless you cut off my supply lines, you cannot kill my fight.
But I'm sure the "air-conditioning" idea guy got lots of backslaps, jealous stares, and attention. he's considering upping his gambit with "Mach3Turbo AC" it's got legs.
Sometimes censorship is not your enemy, though I would never go so far as to hazard idle small talk, if censorship and I brushed past each other on the street.
I try to be friends. He pushes me away. I know he hurts. But for how long. And my pain? does it not have a voice as well. and a right to be heard?
Thomas Jefferson, in an 1803 letter to WH Harrison on how to run game on injuns:
'As to their fear, we presume that our strength and their weakness is now so visible that they must see we have only to shut our hand to crush them, and that all our liberalities to them proceed from motives of pure humanity only. Should any tribe be foolhardy enough to take up the hatchet at any time, the seizing the whole country of that tribe, and driving them across the Mississippi, as the only condition of peace, would be an example to others, and a furtherance of our final consolidation.'
"Stoke boss Tony Pulis is planning a bid for tough-tackling Galatasary defender Servet Cetin, whose nickname "Ayibogan" translates as "a man who could choke a bear".
"A male spotted hyena which attempted to mate with a female which succeeded in driving it off, eventually turned to its ten-month-old cub, repeatedly mounting it and ejaculating on it. The cub sometimes ignored this and sometimes struggled 'slightly as if in play'. The mother did not intervene."
"Since the early 1990’s, for example, young male elephants in Pilanesberg National Park and the Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Game Reserve in South Africa have been raping and killing rhinoceroses; this abnormal behaviour, according to a 2001 study in the journal Pachyderm, has been reported in ‘‘a number of reserves’’ in the region."
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