N8's Artistic Endeavors: Untitled Literary Work, "How Njal's Sons Were Born"

[quietsiege]

This is a section from my untitled literary work entitled "How Njal's Sons Were Born." The setup is this: there is a creature named Kunto who is the main character in the largest section of the work created this far. Njal (the narrator of this section) basically catches Kunto running a scam, calls him out, and summons two mostrous creatures, his

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[jackson_m_pongo]

As the cleverest man met his end and Njal is forced to remain the second-cleverest, this suggests to me that the author is currently the cleverest man alive.

I particularly liked the observation about the literalness of the gods. It would seem to have legal ramifications...

[quietsiege]

Thanks for the compliment! I was getting worried that nobody liked the piece because nobody had commented.

Actually, events in the story quickly suggest a replacement for the post of "cleverest man alive." However, I don't want to ruin the story for everybody by actually letting them read it, so I didn't make that a part of this post.

As far as the literalness of the gods, a major theme in classical literature is sort of the elusiveness of omens (I'm thinking of the guy who thought he was destined to invade Greece and ended up just spitting out a tooth), so that's where I take the idea. Strangely, of all the passages that I've written so far, this one has the least to do with the law, as it's completely my imagining and not based on a happening in American case law.