let me hear your voice tonight (
alexseanchai) wrote2015-11-18 12:43 am
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You know the wisecrack that the ancient Greeks lived in reach of the eminently climbable mountain they believed their gods lived on and never tried to climb it? I know I have heard it before work tonight, but tonight it's really pissing me off. One, how the fuck do you know nobody tried. (Wiki says nobody reached the top till about a hundred years ago, which I do not disbelieve, but ten to one the successful venture used tech not accessible to the ancient Greeks.) Two, that statement evinces a blatant misunderstanding of how any of this works. Two people could be standing side by side on the mountaintop while one of the pair tours the palace of the gods, and the other one wouldn't necessarily notice a thing. Three, Mount Olympos was and is hardly the only holy ground in Greece! Not even the only holy mountain! Mount Helicon's height is not impressive; I bet people have been up and down it all the time dating back to prehistory, and I refer you back to point two.
I don't even know why this came up.
I don't even know why this came up.
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Nod. Which just makes the wisecrack more infuriating, really.