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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.

Comments

[arjache.livejournal.com]

Am I trying to communicate something specific?

[hsifyppah.livejournal.com]

I would be tempted to just tell stories from my personal life. Brooka at 7-11, her slurpee cold! Brooke, her head in her hands, brainfreeze. Joe with Brooke at 7-11, his mouth laughing!

Or fairy tales I suppose.

[tfabris.livejournal.com]

Chekhov and Terell, at Ceti Alpha 5, their ears hurting.

[solarbird]

This reminds me of some Star Trek episode. I should start there.

[zzyzx-xyzzy.livejournal.com]

Rashomon!

[ashley-y.livejournal.com]

Thor in Utgard, lifting a cat's paw.

[neuro42.livejournal.com]

What I want to know is how an entity which can only communicate by mythological analogy comes to have a mythology in the first place.

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

"Little bunny Foo-Foo hopping through the forest/
pickin' up the fieldmice and BOPPIN' 'em onna head!"

Complete with bopping.

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

The story of how Rabbi Hillel the Elder converted a man to Judaism while standing on one foot.

[adularia.livejournal.com]

Any version of the fire-stealing myth.