Not having reviewed the source canon in more than a year obv, good times

[petronia]

So all the Greek poetry* has tipped me over into Writing Something. I can't talk about it because I want it to be a surprise, but I guess this is one of those stories that have been in the works for ages and ages, so I am kind of excited that it is coalescing? Even though I have gotten everything wrong already, see subject line.

Anyway I never wrote it because it's essentially a songfic, in my head, but I can't find the song. On the Internet. So it exists only in my head. What is my life. But somehow I have finally managed to overcome this towering barrier to creativity.


* Per that Tumblr meme: Marguerite Yourcenar was also pissed off about the Library of Alexandria. She really wanted Aeschylus's Achilles/Patrocles trilogy, man, you would not believe. Apparently it was only in the Library in the first place because the Ptolemies borrowed the complete set of Aeschylus from Athens and paid a ridiculous fine rather than give it back.

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[pere-chan.livejournal.com]

Would it be unhelpful to simply say 'YAY! \o/'?

Was also excited to read your footnote because my favourite book The Last Samurai (no relation) speaks at length about the Library's strategies for keeping originals. It also tipped me off to the fact that there is a two-volume history publication called Ptolemaic Alexandria, and if I ever get my own dream manse that is the first thing that is going into my library.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

I'm terrified that we're in the process of building another Library of Alexandria, actually, on a planetary scale - the Internet. It's the same cognitive bias as the Ptolemies fell prey to, you know: we think that as long as we put it there it'll be all right, it'll be there forever. But what if it goes down?

#shitthatforrealskeepsmeawakeatnight

[pere-chan.livejournal.com]

Uh.

If you need me, I'll be over here printing the entirety of LJ.

[pere-chan.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I meant printing out the entirety of LJ.

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