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[gfish]

Moving sucks, but it is pretty much done. I'm all the way back in Seattle, and have updated all my location fields to reflect this.

So, to distract me while I try to tetrissokoban my workroom into shape, a question:

You're trapped with an alien who only communicates via mythological analogy. What story from our cultural heritage do you tell them? Gilgamesh is taken, obviously.

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[arjache.livejournal.com]

Am I trying to communicate something specific?

[gfish.livejournal.com]

No, just trying to build a common framework, to share the stories you consider important the way the alien has been sharing theirs.

[arjache.livejournal.com]

Man, how would I choose? I might pick something from Doctor Who, or Batman. Or the story of Icarus (including the bit with the minotaur), or the Velveteen Rabbit, or maybe I'd try to recite them the poem about Abou Ben Adhem (http://www.bartleby.com/41/524.html).

I wonder if it'd be pretentious to tell them some of the stories in my own head. I suppose since they're all a product of my own enculturation they might serve the same purpose.

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

Oh, I hadn't even thought about the possibilities in Greek mythology...

[ashley-y.livejournal.com]

You could always pick something from Star Trek: TNG.

[arjache.livejournal.com]

That's so recursive my brain hurts.

[ashley-y.livejournal.com]

Seems to be a good starting point, though? As in, "this is the situation we're in".

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Darmok. :)