Marked: Quote

[ruin_takada]

QuoteThis is the last hurdle before actual content, I promise!

The quote for today is simply contrived and useless. It lends nothing to the work except perhaps a term, and the illusion of intelligence and literacy in classical pieces: it’s a stanza from Hesiod’s Theogony. Now, I don’t know all that much about Hesiod, but I’m willing to bet that

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[zelda_queen]

The real-lilfe Hesiod did write a poem about Nyx, actually. That poem, Theogony, was basically him writing down the lineage of the Greek gods. According to him, Nyx (among other deities) was born directly out of Chaos, the primal start of everything. Though I suspect you're right, and that the Cast ladies did mean to imply that Hesiod was a vampire (or at least was tight with them) and thought Nyx was the greatest goddess ever, as all these nitwits do

[ruin_takada]

Wow. Thanks for the info~

I was sure this quote was just a loose, desperate attempt of theirs to look literary while failing miserably, but it's great to know how massively they failed. Brilliant~

I'll try harder to research things like this next time, but I'm not going to pretend I know anything much about Classical Greek poetry. I'll leave that kind of posturing to the Cast ladies.

[zelda_queen]

Yeah, you're right. Their knowledge of Greek mythology seems to be just researched enough to make one wonder WHAT they were thinking when they wrote the rest of it.

I actually didn't do much poking into the mythology myself, when I did my own sporking. ^^; I'm actually considering re-sporking Marked and Betrayed, since I think I missed quite a lot of information about it (that, and I'd like to redo it with the counts). It'd also get things set up for when we start doing Chosen.