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Tithonus
The giant asked the god to be immortal
but not to be divine, neither to lie
nor sit nor stand nor even leap beyond
the limits of this flesh, for he knew well
Eos could offer one thing or another
but never both. To live as an idea
means vanishing in the instant that the mind
which spawned you passes into another room,
to live forever is to be the earth
on which all other lives proceed in courses
both more abrupt and worthier to take:
still, he could not conceive of any horror
greater than that of death, not even the body
withered so much that only the jaws, the throat,
the shoulders, the chest, and the diaphragm could move,
which is how both his offspring came to favor
risking their youth for senseless causes, Memnon
fighting to save a city he knew was doomed,
Alcides on the road to achieve his labors
by Emathion blocked, the noble line
that towering over all their Ethiopian
subjects governed as emperors cut short.
duke I think you also got gold? which is pretty awesome
were these prompts much harder than last time or have they been somehow easier? i definitely struggled most with Oceania, since i barely knew anything about the place. but it's damn rewarding to try writing something, for thirty days, that could feasibly be taken as one coherent whole. tempted to have the whole series workshopped as one thread, with the main goal of figuring out which ones need to be entirely reconceived xD
The giant asked the god to be immortal
but not to be divine, neither to lie
nor sit nor stand nor even leap beyond
the limits of this flesh, for he knew well
Eos could offer one thing or another
but never both. To live as an idea
means vanishing in the instant that the mind
which spawned you passes into another room,
to live forever is to be the earth
on which all other lives proceed in courses
both more abrupt and worthier to take:
still, he could not conceive of any horror
greater than that of death, not even the body
withered so much that only the jaws, the throat,
the shoulders, the chest, and the diaphragm could move,
which is how both his offspring came to favor
risking their youth for senseless causes, Memnon
fighting to save a city he knew was doomed,
Alcides on the road to achieve his labors
by Emathion blocked, the noble line
that towering over all their Ethiopian
subjects governed as emperors cut short.
duke I think you also got gold? which is pretty awesome
were these prompts much harder than last time or have they been somehow easier? i definitely struggled most with Oceania, since i barely knew anything about the place. but it's damn rewarding to try writing something, for thirty days, that could feasibly be taken as one coherent whole. tempted to have the whole series workshopped as one thread, with the main goal of figuring out which ones need to be entirely reconceived xD