16 Sep
2009
16 Sep
'09
4:25 p.m.
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Jim Adcock <jimad@msn.com> wrote:
Those sculptors who choose to work in ice are rarely remembered well by later ages. Sculptors who work in iron and bronze can easily be remembered for several millennia. The choice is the artist's.
Except when what we are talking about is transcribers scratching other artist's works into mud tablets with (at best) a pointy stick.
Which is exactly what happened to Gilgamesh. I suppose the author should have thrown a temper tantrum and demanded it be written only on the finest silk, in which case we wouldn't have a copy. -- Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero.