Step 2: engage in a long, disjointed conversation about Literature.
Step 3: repeat step 2.
John says:
The Iliad annoys me.
Hilary says:
yep
Hilary says:
me too
John says:
Names names names, and different ways of dying...that's all man.
Hilary says:
I read all the way to the end of the stupid thing and there was NO HORSE!
Hilary says:
what's the damn point of reading about Troy and not getting a horse at the end?!
John says:
If I was listening to some blind dude singing that by a fire, I'd be asleep in about three seconds.
Hilary says:
I was mad
John says:
Is the horse really not in the Iliad?
John says:
Yes it is.
John says:
Isn't it?
Hilary says:
someone told me you have to go to the Aeneid to get the horse
John says:
Or is it in the Odyssey?
Hilary says:
bugger that, thought I!
John says:
Ah. The Aeneid.
John says:
I suppose you're right.
John says:
That's the sort of thing I should know though.
Hilary says:
I'll catch the movie
John says:
Oh yeah. Brad Pitt in a leather skirt. What could be better?
Hilary says:
I did read all the After-Troy tragedies though
Hilary says:
I came up with the perfect solution to the whole mess:
Hilary says:
when the soothsayers say that you need to sacrifice the king's daughter to stop the storms so you can go kick the Trojans' butts,
Hilary says:
don't sacrifice her.
Hilary says:
Sacrifice the soothsayers instead
Hilary says:
That'll learn em
John says:
I hope I'll have the opportunity to use that bit of wisdom some day.
Hilary says:
Ok Im going to bed before I start getting weird
John says:
Well, if it helps. I'm not sure the difference will be noticeable. But good luck anyway.
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