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11 years ago @ The Toast - Dirtbag Apollo · 1 reply · +7 points

Hades is pretty not-dickish. There is Persephone and the whole god of the dead thing, but he doesn't interfere with mortals and start wars. Even when people die, it's the other gods who devise punishments for those who tricked the gods, with everyone else he understands that the loss of life is punishment enough.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Dirtbag Apollo · 1 reply · +7 points

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis#Intimacy

Nope. She left her own trail of bodies, and not all are your standard creeps. And heaven forbid anyone say that you're halfway decent at hunting within earshot of her.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Dirtbag Apollo · 0 replies · +13 points

Because Artemis was a massive dick, too. She helped Apollo murder Niobe's children, she had a bear hunt Atalanta (a girl she helped raise with further help by bears) because others said she was a better hunter, and she had the goddess Aura raped by Dionysius, because she complimented Artemis on her breasts.

Massive, massive dick.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Getting Your Dante Con... · 0 replies · +2 points

If you wander back in the direction of Kierkegaard, beware of Johannes Climacus. He's just there as Kafka's ice pick straight to the brain.

11 years ago @ The Toast - How To Talk To Babies ... · 0 replies · +2 points

I once had a professor who taught a semiotics class and had no idea what semiotics was. He was also a Russianist. It's like, hey Jakobson is right over there and hey Lotman is over there. I think if you ten pages they might tell what semiotics is.

I think the first part about the book is basically how you need to talk to college students.

11 years ago @ The Toast - How To Talk To Babies ... · 0 replies · +3 points

Ksenia (like Xena) is the feminine variant.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Hunger Is the Beginnin... · 0 replies · +3 points

I guess for the weird relief--you're welcome?

I used to work for a Russian folklorist, so there are things I'm not allowed to forget.

And thanks for the piece, I've been thinking about lack a lot recently.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Hunger Is the Beginnin... · 2 replies · +2 points

The concept of lack comes from the Russian Vladimir Propp, not Dundes. When Dundes used it, it was as a translation of Propp's concept (and as the translator of Propp).

Also, Levi-Strauss used it in French before Dundes used it in English.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Dirtbag Aslan · 0 replies · +9 points

In the cartoon version Aslan gave the presents, and that seems to be what Mallory is working off of.

That, or she's already starting the War on Christmas.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Tips From My Forthcomi... · 0 replies · +2 points

I don't know about Western and Southern Europe, but I do know that in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe saunas were popular. Maybe in Southern Europe there were still Roman style bathhouses? Some medieval information is really unreliable because gossip and political skullduggery have amazing staying power.

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