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Reminds me of the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus, who was purportedly killed by having a turtle shell dropped on his head by a vulture who mistook his bald
by netule 5y ago
Reminds me of the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus, who was purportedly killed by having a turtle shell dropped on his head by a vulture who mistook his bald head for a rock.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeschylus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeschylus
- smegger001 5y agoI wonder if that is what inspired Terry Prattchet, in Small Gods the inquisitor Vorbis is killed when a tortoise falls on his head having being dropped by a eagle. that tortoise is also his god turned into a tortoise due to lack of belief.
- Symbiote 5y agoPratchett would probably have corrected the APF if this were untrue. https://www.lspace.org/books/apf/small-gods.html https://www.lspace.org/books/apf/small-gods.html
- major505 5y agowell, if you gonna die in a stupid way, it might as well be in a way that have people thinking how the hell that happened.