stories

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2010

stories

We talked about the brothers Karamoz and everyone complained how boring it
is. He told us how the attention span of the average human is 70 seconds the
length of a commercial.

We talked about stories and their morals

In order to have a story you have to have a conflict, without a moral there

is no story. It is the experience not the teaching of the lesson that makes it a good and lasting story.

.“Lot’s wife” is a truly gruesome story from the bible about how God sent some angels to Lot’s house. The men of the town came to Lot’s house and insisted that Lot bring the angels out so that the men of the town could rape them. Lot is upset with the crowd for wanting to rape the angels and offers the crowd his virgin daughters if they would leave the angels alone. The angels blind the crowd. Lot and his family leave the city, but his wife makes the mistake of looking over her shoulder as she leaves and is turned into a piller of salt. The daughters both seduce their father so that his blood line does not end. The both have sons from that incestuous relationship with their father.

Daedalus and Icarus

In the Story of Daedalus and Icarus, Daedalus was an inventor and he and his son were imprisoned in Crete which he hated. He built a set of wings for himself and his son to fly out. He had a premonition that his son would not make it. He cautioned him not

to fly too close to the sea or too close to the sun because he had used wax to hold the wings together. Of course Icarus, being like all kids everywhere did not listen to his father, flew too close to the sun. The sun melted the wax in his wings and Icarus fell into the sea. In the second part of the story Daedalus’s sister sent her clever son to be an apprentice with his uncle, Daedalus. Daedalus was jealous of the talent that Perdix had and arranged an accident to kill Perdix. Minerva saved Perdix and turned him into a ground loving bird.

Another very old and violent with a tale.