(stands on chair, whistles)

[kassandraloxias.livejournal.com]

First off: Constantine-mun, I loff you! You may inflict whatever damage you like on the Ithakan *when Skandra's not around!* :) Sorry I lost your thread. I lost about six.

For those STILL KEEPING SCORE,
We're here --

http://www.livejournal.com/community/milliways_bar/493268.html

Comments

[clumsy_auror]

Right there with you, babe!

*jumps back into fray*

[ithakan-king.livejournal.com]

*indignant*

Oi! What's this then? The Ithakan protests the possibility of manhandling by the wizard!

: )

[young_tmriddle]

Poor 'Skandra! Tom is so bringing you one of the snakes from Kelafonia, even though he greedily wants to keep all three.

[veryvorkosigan]

...and I am right now trying very very hard not to sing "Snake From Kelafonia" to the tune of Phil Ochs's "Tape From California."

Head go hurty.

[kassandraloxias.livejournal.com]

Riddle, Riddle, Riddle, bring the python home...

/obscure obscure selkie-inspired filk

[spiderine.livejournal.com]

John wishes me to tell you that Constantine don't need no permission from nobody to give the smackdown where and when he pleases, but don't listen to him, he's an arsehole. ;)

The problem is... see, John has read the Odyssey, and he has always admired Odysseus for his crafty, wily, lying, sneaky yet still kinda-sorta noble ways. Kind of a role model for John, in a sense. So I think that it's more likely that John will sit Odysseus down and buy him a drink and talk to him... though he will warn him to keep a civil tongue in his gob about Kassandra.

By the way, what's wrong with the Fitzgerald Odyssey? I have a copy of that, and I've read it so many times it's dogeared and falling apart. What am I missing? Where is there a better one? Oh please tell me!

[kassandraloxias.livejournal.com]

Duly noted, re: Constantine. I think it's not so much a permission thing -- I mean, John can certainly and surely do whatever she wants -- as an aversion to the sight of violence given its abundance these past days. Poor crazy girl, she's frayed.

And do sit and drink with Odysseus. Yee, I'd love to read that thread.

The thing with Fitzgerald, and his Odyssey and his Aeneid, is that he uses a lot of license with the original text.
Original text: Pass the salt.
Fitzgerald text: Pass the salt or I'll skin you for booties!

There are reasons to like Fitzgerald -- he preserves the epic form really well, and he's faithful with spelling and epithets -- but I just prefer a cleaner text that stays near the original. It can take Fitzgerald twenty lines to recount ten lines of epic. Sometimes, the sense of things changes or is left ambiguous, when he goes all florid.

/geek