...eat the flesh of plump children.
Jan. 12th, 2009 12:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
polutropeGregory Nagy: "We are reminded [by Pindar's version of the Pelops myth, in which Tantalos takes ambrosia and cannot digest it] of the witch who lived in the candy house in the story of Hansel and Gretel: having access to the ultimate food, she lusts to eat the flesh of plump children."
1. Candy is "the ultimate food"? Maybe if you're twelve.
2. I could have written this. If it were 4AM the day before the paper was due and I were being really lazy with the editing or really needed those 34 words.
3. This is the sort of thing you can get away with when you're an authority in your field?
Ugh I am posting way too much but I am halfway done with my Helenpaper and I did my Latin recitation so like whatever.
1. Candy is "the ultimate food"? Maybe if you're twelve.
2. I could have written this. If it were 4AM the day before the paper was due and I were being really lazy with the editing or really needed those 34 words.
3. This is the sort of thing you can get away with when you're an authority in your field?
Ugh I am posting way too much but I am halfway done with my Helenpaper and I did my Latin recitation so like whatever.
