the wave front emerges from the bards sublime

This morning as we chatted, hai_kah_uhk told me I'd hurt her head. But it was all an innocent conversation, I swear! I'd simply said that I bet a lot of the famous nymphs in mythology started out as Mary Sues. "She was sooooo beautiful even Aphrodite got jealous of her! And she was self-sufficient and didn't need a man! But then the god Apollo saw her..."

Face it, even if the Greek originators of these myths took them seriously, by the time old Romans like Ovid got ahold of the characters, it was pure fanfic crack. "The nymph Daphne was a wild-looking huntress, but once Apollo saw her, he knew she'd look really gorgeous if she just bought a new dress and got her hair done in the latest style!" SRSLY.

Not that I'm knocking Ovid, mind you. Though I do find it funny that his favorite ending for all his stories is "And then she turned into a tree!"

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right words
on your own.
i cannot keep him, you know, i cajoled, he'll die.
for master or for tears,
and in despite of toil and toil, believing,
looking more than a feather.
the mind has no fun;
you've set a book to read omens there
but all his place. A noble spring
and never winced before.
once i had you.

--MegaHAL

HAL might be writing about one of the old myths here. Calypso being told it's time to let Odysseus go? Some story Ovid could have written, with one lover being turned into a bird and the other into a fountain? "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right words"--so who has been accused?

MegaPoMo is going well so far. How are all the NaNoWriMo folks doing out there?