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I stand corrected. It was much louder than a consumer vacuum but my analogy skills are weak.
by buckminster 7y ago
I stand corrected. It was much louder than a consumer vacuum but my analogy skills are weak.
- ggm 7y agoYour analogy skills were strong, because analogy is rooted in myth, not fact. Achilles did not actually have an Achilles tendon because Achilles did not exist There does not have to be an increadibly loud functional industrial vacuum cleaner, for figuratively everyone to get your analogy, because the Herculean reality of vacuum cleaners is that you cannot clean an augean stable of lego on the floor, without a lot of noise. If you get my analogy.
- ColanR 7y agoTo continue the pedantry, I don't think we know for sure that Achilles didn't exist. Troy certainly did, and we have the Iliad to thank for knowing to look for it.
- ggm 7y agoNo, we have Schliemann to thank, for digging through it in his lust for anachronistically Indy-Jonesing the archeology. Troy only exists because Schliemann stole the gold. Otherwise its just some hill in Turkey.
- ColanR 7y agoI know the story...Schliemann went looking for Troy because the Illiad told him it existed.
- ggm 7y agoDidn't work on Ararat. False in unum, false in omnibus. Anyway, he went to the wrong hill first. But overall yes, myth informs reality sometimes. Shame he didn't find the bones of the giant wooden platypus the Greek ice cream salesmen hid in.