[Primeval man] could walk upright as men now do, backwards or
forwards as he pleased, and he could also roll over and over at a great
pace, turning on his four hands and four feet, eight in all, like
tumblers going over and over with their legs in the air; this was when
he wanted to run fast …Terrible was their might and strength, and the
thoughts of their hearts were great, and they made an attack upon the
gods ... Doubt reigned in the celestial councils. Should they kill them
and annihilate the race with thunderbolts, as they had done the giants,
then there would be an end of the sacrifices and worship which men
offered to them; but, on the other hand, the gods could not suffer
their insolence to be unrestrained. At last, after a good deal of
reflection, Zeus
discovered a way. He said: 'Methinks I have a plan which will humble
their pride and improve their manners; men shall continue to exist, but
I will cut them in two and then they will be diminished in strength and
increased in numbers; this will have the advantage of making them more
profitable to us. They shall walk upright on two legs, and if they
continue insolent and will not be quiet, I will split them again and
they shall hop about on a single leg.'—Aristophanes, Plato’s Symposium, [1]
the hot towel...
all these years of being too opinionated compounded by taking the risks that didn't support those opinions only led me in counter clockwise in the well-rounded departments of life. and after a long trial and error process of personal selection. it seems that i've got it all wrong. and my criteria for the funny, the educated and the fiesty were all the wrong qualities in finding my other half. i obviously need to find the korean fob who will cook clean and be submissive to my every need. that is my other split. thank you mr dmd. hahaha.
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