Wasting time on the internet: lesson 1

Step 1: sign up for instant messaging.

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.