City on Green

Adam Thornton · 01 Jan 2011, 05:49 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: adam at io.com (Adam Thornton)
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 23:49:27 -0600
Subject: (urth) City on Green
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On 12/31/2010 10:36 PM, David Stockhoff wrote:
> Oops, Nessus killed Hercules, not the other way. Well, we might wonder 
> then who is Hercules.
>
Hercules also killed Nessus, if that helps.  As I recall, Deionara, who 
was Mrs. Hercules?  The main squeeze of Hercules?  had Nessus help her 
across a river, and then he tried to rape her, and then Hercules killed 
him (with a poison arrow?  Don't remember), and, dying, he said to her 
something like, "if Hercules wears a shirt soaked in my blood, he will 
never love another."

So of course she does the Dillinger-hankie thing, and then Hercules puts 
it on, and OOPS AGONIZING DEATH.

Nota bene: I didn't look any of this up, so I could be *totally wrong*.

Adam

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