heelies: (( peripeteia ))
Achilles, son of Peleus ([personal profile] heelies) wrote in [community profile] futurology 2016-08-14 04:41 pm (UTC)

[It is after a pause that he again speaks.]

Rather than the teller of stories, I prefer to be the subject, the hero for whose deeds the story is told. I have heard lately that long after I enter the house of Hades, the bards shall sing that I was impervious to the spears and arrows of men, for my mother bathed me in the River Styx when I was an infant. Yet such a thing as this never occurred. I wonder then at what point the tales of my deeds evolved such that my godlike strength turned into invincibility.

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