Worked on a long driveway today, and here are some of the thoughts that occured to me while waiting for it to dry:
- After the success of "Dancing with the Stars," Fox rolled out "Skating with Celebrities." I hope that they follow the new illiteration naming and roll out "Boxing with Bigwigs" next.
- If instead of putting names on bricks for a walkway through a park, wouldn't it be cool if they etched readings from the Book of Proverbs instead? That way it could be called "The Proverbial Walk Through the Park."
- I recently finished listening to A Man in Full on audiocassette. The conclusion that I reached (different from Lit class discussion), is that Zeus really does mean Zeus. It's the theology of the Stoics, not Christian. However, I really liked the book.
- Still salmon, people.
There were other thoughts, but I can't think of what they were now.
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I tend to agree: Zeus definitely means Zeus, Stoic means Stoic, and it's an enjoyable but occasionally disturbing book. I liked it pretty well except for the Stoic conversion stuff at the end - it just didn't make much sense to me that those particular characters would become Stoics. Honestly, how many people have you met who take Zeus seriously (theologically speaking, of course)?
Yeah, it seemed like the story was about different types of "masculine" in the different characters. I think that it was amusing though when you think about how often the Mayor Wes Jordan was mentioned that they used the word "irony" all the time. Then, the irony was that the Zeus stuff which was, I think, portrayed as absolutely ridiculous (more so in Crocker's character, of course), was the thing that got him re-elected. The overarching irony is what I found amusing. Then the added flourish of him going out to evangelize in the name of Zeus was just added humor, I thought. Might be wrong, I wasn't CLA after all... :-p
"Hot Pot of Coffee! By the great beard of Zeus!"
- Ron Burgandy
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