Perception

One of the most popular kind of illusions are those that you don’t understand at first, but then you slowly adjust to them and understand them. Pictures of people standing straight up on wall, sideways landscapes, etc, are really fun. Even better is when you can do that in writing. When something can be misty and begin to form without really being clear.Jorges Luis Borges’ stories seem to have an underlying mythos cycle that is hinted at but never revealed. Each supernaturally-charged story has a plot and a MacGuffin, but also a sense of – not God, but – magic or mysticism.Many fantasy and sci-fi stories have complex historical sagas which require the reader to memorize them. Hard Sci-Fi has names and concepts and places too. Readers of these stories often feel superior because they are reading such advanced material, but often there won’t be a point to the story. 

Sick

I am sick. Or, rather, my throat is sick. The rest of me is fine. I feel like I could run a mile (I can’t really) if it weren’t for the hacking cough every few minutes. I bought a book recently. It’s a book on Mythology from DK, and encompasses all kinds of heroes and gods and such. Quite a few stories (Gilgamesh, etc…) had stories of a great flood in them. Which got me thinking…Why doesn’t the book have the Torah/Bible stories in there? Without even questioning their validity, aren’t they just as mythological as Odin or Raven the Trickster god? Because nowhere in the book do they even mention whether or not the stories are real, and nowhere to they mention Christianity w/out the phrase “Before Slovakia was taken over by Christianity, they had a rich mythological heritage” or some such flapdoodle.No, it’s a great book. But it does confuse me so.