Wonder what's interesting on the phone today?
If you go back far enough, fragments are all you have.
That isn't bad if you used to dress like a penis.
Take the epic of Gilgamesh, for example, or rather the epics of Gilgamesh. There are at least ten versions, all from different cities and different times. None are complete. Some contradict. We speak of an epic of Gilgamesh, but like everything else in life, you get different answers depending on who you ask.
Like our personal lives, the story of Gilgamesh, among other things, is a story of friendship and a search for immortality. Gilgamesh is a great king who meets and fights Enkidu, then they become fast friends. Enkidu is a wild man, born in the fields, who eats grass, is hairy, howls at the moon, and probably forgets to wear underarm deodorant most days.
"The whole of his body was hairy and his (uncut) locks were like a woman's or the hair of the goddess of grain. Moreover, he knew nothing of settled fields or human beings and was clothed (in skins) like a deity of flocks."
Gilgamesh sends him a prostitute. That seems to settle him down. She has sex with him for a few days, then convinces him to try some wine. After downing the ancient equivalent of a case of beer, Enkidu begins singing and allows himself to be shaved and bathed. He gets a haircut, picks up his sword, and is ready to go out and fight.
As far back as we can look, people were hooking up with hookers, getting loaded, having sex, and doing other stupid things. In Gilgamesh such activities were considered an essential part of becoming civilized. Nothing like a little sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll to knock the edge off.
I was thinking about Gilgamesh when I read an article about how kids were sending pornographic pictures of themselves by cell phone to each other. It's called "sexting." The kids are being arrested and held for felony charges -- child pornography and distribution of child pornography. This is strange because the "children" in question are the kids themselves. The victims are also the perpetrators.
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