Nevermind...

[aderam]

I take back what I said about Hesiod. The Theogony is a rollocking good time.

Case in point:

Great Heaven came, bringing on the night, and, desirous of love, he spread himself over Earth, stretched out in every direction. His son reached out from the ambush with his left hand; with his right he took the huge sickle with its long row of sharp teeth and quickly cut off his father's genitals, and flung them behind him to fly where they might.
...
As for the genitals, just as he first cut them off with his instrument of adamant and threw them from the land into the surging sea, even so they were carried on the waves for a long time. About them a white foam grew from the immortal flesh, and in it a girl formed. ... And out stepped a modest and beautiful goddess, and the grass began to grow all around beneath her slender feet. Gods and men called her Aphrodite, because she was formed in foam, ... and 'genial', because she appeared out of genitals.

This isn't quite as good as Homer's obsession with nipples in the Iliad, but it's still well worth the read.

:)

Comments

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

My first reaction was "This sounds like Neil Gaiman or Tim Powers", but I guess it would make more sense to say that Neil Gaiman and Tim Powers sound like this. Magical, but very odd, in other words.

[aderam.livejournal.com]

Taking another look at it with that in mind, I think that this sounds like Neil Gaiman when he's trying to write like it's a myth. Which is very appropreate considering.

Also I find that Neil Gaiman has many different tones and styles depending on the work that he's writing. It's always a little bizarre but it's not a unified style per-se.

[mathea.livejournal.com]

Don't forget the nipples in Roland! I'm pretty sure they were mentioned a few times. Or maybe that was groins, I can't tell, either way they were manly. And very descriptively... described.

And then George the Awesome sliced Lester, Son of Quentin's Son's Son Bert, from the crown of his head to his groin, and therefrom all his guts came gushing out in a cascading spill to the ground, which dyed the grass red, and it stayed red henceforth, to such an extent that all the grass' sons, and its sons' sons, were all thenceforth red as well...

Well, not QUITE, but you know.