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a.d. II Kal. Oct.

So, listening to Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis is not a good idea when you're supposed to be writing a paper. Because it's really hard to concentrate on anything else. It's also kind of weird to be sitting, having this beautiful, awful₍₁₎ music in your ears watching people wander around completely oblivious.

Though said paper is progressing.

Something really neat we talked about the other day in class: the importance of one's sister's son in legends. He gave a bunch of examples, and I'm collecting more:

King Arthur and Sir Gawain
King Mark and Tristram
Charlemagne and Roland
Hyglac and Beowulf
Conchobor and Cuchulainn
Theoden and Eomer

Anyway, if you come up with any, I would be interested.

1)That would be "awful" in the sense of "inspiring awe."

And now, because I evidentally want to waste more time:

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul
ricardienne goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as Eowyn.
achyvi tricks you! You get a wet rag.
decollete tricks you! You get a toothbrush.
ea14spk68weeper gives you 17 brown coconut-flavoured gummy bats.
flyinghouse gives you 16 softly glowing peach-flavoured gumdrops.
forgotnsuitcase gives you 7 red-orange strawberry-flavoured gumdrops.
grapeyquoter tricks you! You get an eraser.
queenxii gives you 10 blue orange-flavoured pieces of chewing gum.
sarcastic_kitty gives you 11 orange watermelon-flavoured gumdrops.
voglia_di_notte gives you 14 milky white coffee-flavoured pieces of bubblegum.
wyldlittlepoet gives you 1 light yellow pineapple-flavoured gumdrops.
ricardienne ends up with 76 pieces of candy, a wet rag, a toothbrush, and an eraser.
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What is it with Anna and tricking people? First she gives me a floppy disk, then she gives you a wet rag...

I'm thinking she forgot to buy candy. Or else she just ate it all herself. :P

As for the sister's son thing...there's probably one in the Iliad, but since I've never actually *read* the Iliad, I'm blanking out on who it might be.

I feel like I know several more of these, but I'm drawing a blank. I'll come back if I have a miraculous brainwave.

The importance of the sister's child is interesting. It seems to be an extension of the Orphan Child storyline used in legends so often.

Right now I can't pull out any examples from my rusty brain. ....Maybe Isis and Horus (Isis was both the sister and wife of Osiris)? Horus also battled his father's brother, Set. I don't know if that is a good example of what you need.

I would definately read your essay on this, if you post it.

I'm not actually writing an essay on the "sister's son" idea. I just thought it was interesting.

I'm sure there's one in the Siegfried Cycle, but I don't really know it that well.

I totally didn't eat it all.

*hides wrappers*