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Thursday_Prompt within a week, this time!
So, this weeks' prompt was 'ferry', and I started thinking of Charon, the ferryman of the dead. I first started thinking about how grumpy he probably got with so many people making jokes about the song "Don't Pay the Ferryman"... and then I got rather more philosophical and meta about it all. Ended up writing in the second person because I had to make the viewpoint character as much of a non-entity for the reader's projection as possible, and it's easier to avoid using gendered pronouns in the second person.
So, yeah, I got weird and philosophical about death and immortality via stories. I'm old enough that I think I can be excused.
And yes, the numbers I gave above are accurate. Total world population is 7.9 billion, death rate per year is 7.7 per thousand, so 7,900,000,000*0.0077/365/24/60 - about 115 deaths per minute, on average. Charon definitely needed a bigger ferry.
Thursday_Prompt within a week, this time!So, this weeks' prompt was 'ferry', and I started thinking of Charon, the ferryman of the dead. I first started thinking about how grumpy he probably got with so many people making jokes about the song "Don't Pay the Ferryman"... and then I got rather more philosophical and meta about it all. Ended up writing in the second person because I had to make the viewpoint character as much of a non-entity for the reader's projection as possible, and it's easier to avoid using gendered pronouns in the second person.
So, yeah, I got weird and philosophical about death and immortality via stories. I'm old enough that I think I can be excused.
And yes, the numbers I gave above are accurate. Total world population is 7.9 billion, death rate per year is 7.7 per thousand, so 7,900,000,000*0.0077/365/24/60 - about 115 deaths per minute, on average. Charon definitely needed a bigger ferry.
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I checked the numbers, and back in the time of Classical Athens, the total world population is estimated to be not far off from the number of people who die annually these days. (I've seen estimates running from 30 to 100 million; it's hard to be sure because not everybody was keeping records, and few of the ones that were being kept survived.)
And yeah, the song was actually where the story started (I have it on CD here), it just kind of blossomed out from there.
And yeah, the song was actually where the story started (I have it on CD here), it just kind of blossomed out from there.
Heh.
Hades wasn't a bad guy, despite how he has been portrayed in some more modern renditions. He chose the underworld as his domain deliberately, partly to avoid the politics of Olympus, partly because he was the only one who could have challenged Zeus for the throne and he knew an internal fight between the gods so soon after the Titans were killed could destroy them all, and partly because he knew everybody else would be so happy he wasn't challenging Zeus they probably wouldn't look too closely at just how much power was involved in that domain...
Hades wasn't a bad guy, despite how he has been portrayed in some more modern renditions. He chose the underworld as his domain deliberately, partly to avoid the politics of Olympus, partly because he was the only one who could have challenged Zeus for the throne and he knew an internal fight between the gods so soon after the Titans were killed could destroy them all, and partly because he knew everybody else would be so happy he wasn't challenging Zeus they probably wouldn't look too closely at just how much power was involved in that domain...
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