(January 11, 2016 at 2:11 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:(January 11, 2016 at 2:08 pm)Irrational Wrote: Odysseus? He conceals his identity temporarily from his wife and her suitors when he gets back home from his voyage, but throughout the journey on sea, he was obvious to everyone around him. But even so, this is a story idea that is too common (archetypal) to even consider as a remarkable thing to emulate. I'm sure, the Hindus and the Chinese had that in their stories as well.
Isn't this the basis for every single Shakespeare "comedy"
Pretty much. I did say it was a cheap ripoff.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'