10-24-2007, 06:49 PM
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Location: Orange County, CA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SeattleUte
Trippledaddy, close your eyes! Here's a famous scene from Western Civilization's perhaps oldest and perhaps greatest if not most infuential work of literature, NC-17 rated for violence:
Next he sprang on Thestor son of
Enops, who was sitting all huddled up in his chariot, for he had
lost his head and the reins had been torn out of his hands.
Patroclus went up to him and drove a spear into his right jaw; he
thus hooked him by the teeth and the spear pulled him over the
rim of his car, as one who sits at the end of some jutting rock
and draws a strong fish out of the sea with a hook and a line--
even so with his spear did he pull Thestor all gaping from his
chariot; he then threw him down on his face and he died while
falling. On this, as Erylaus was on to attack him, he struck him
full on the head with a stone, and his brains were all battered
inside his helmet, whereon he fell headlong to the ground and the
pangs of death took hold upon him. Then he laid low, one after
the other, Erymas, Amphoterus, Epaltes, Tlepolemus, Echius son of
Damastor, Pyris, lpheus, Euippus and Polymelus son of Argeas.
--Iliad Book 16 (By Homer, Butler prose tans.)
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Is there an edited version you could send me?
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