tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post6557653858714619568..comments2024-03-28T00:23:01.632-04:00Comments on Lem's Levity: Shipwrecked SailorTrooper Yorkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978703998566102194noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-3684380807215834022016-08-24T11:53:51.958-04:002016-08-24T11:53:51.958-04:00It occurred to me later the giant snake thing seem...It occurred to me later the giant snake thing seems akin to Chinese type dragon. And a lot like an exaggerated phallic fixation. A lot of fear of that imaginary massive hose shaped thing rising up and over the child-like figure of grown adult male adventurer reduced to prostration before it. No wonder then that the Vizier laughed and the Pharaoh like it so well. And odd too the story predicts its own everlasting telling, and it actually comes true if by a single copy. It makes me wonder how many scrolls said similar things but are lost to history, how many similar brags lost to events like the library fire in Alexandria. Chip Ahoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12597726289890879627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-58248067256321627762016-08-24T11:19:17.908-04:002016-08-24T11:19:17.908-04:00Remarkably similar to the stories of the "1,0...Remarkably similar to the stories of the "1,001 Nights," several millennia later.Mumpsimushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03105924003974189699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-74786119431450714762016-08-24T06:01:25.086-04:002016-08-24T06:01:25.086-04:00Go on and repeat how that affected the choices you...Go on and repeat how that affected the choices you made. I'm listening. Chip Ahoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12597726289890879627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-26643315599378457172016-08-24T05:48:50.184-04:002016-08-24T05:48:50.184-04:00Oh, please, Chip Ahoy: Did you not notice, did you...Oh, please, Chip Ahoy: Did you not notice, did you forget, that a long, long time ago, I spoke about stuff about which I cared so very much, from earliest age. I cared about the folks who were considered defective when I was in elementary school in the '60s (we got to see them only during art days and music days, and, once in a while, special PE days). That experience inspired me, oh, yes, it did, sir.<br /><br />I'd repeat how that affected the choices I made later--except that, from what I can tell--that sort of thing wouldn't mean a flea's knee, much less a rat's ass to you, Chip Ahoy, anymore.<br /><br />Hey, so it goes. *shrug* *ok* *whatever*<br /><br />rcommalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00301180339680504471noreply@blogger.com