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My favourite is the old banking ziggurat. Nobody knows why they designed it so weird and lumpen, and all the glass that used to make up the top couple of floors is long gone, but Zenethor found a little scale model of the place up in the attic storage. They showed it to us. We had never seen anything like it before. It used to be so beautiful. I especially liked the tall pointy green things around the base of it, and the big boxy things that people were inside, all laid out in the big grey field in front. The elders called them "cars."

We decided then that this relic of the old world had to be protected. It was a piece of another life. Couldn't just leave the model around, for the raiders to get. To smash. Even though there's obviously no food up there, they might try to drink some of the rainwater puddles through the shattered glass and come across it. Took us the better part of two days to carry it back down the stairs, pausing every time we thought we heard an approaching BMX gang.

When Helen was of age to be married, all the Lords of Greece came to seek her hand. This was an issue for her stepfather the King of Sparta who could only pick one husband and then would have to deal with the far greater number of angry rejected suitors.

One suitor was Odysseus, then a younger man. He quickly ascertained that he had no chance of marrying Helen. Ithaca was too poor for him to even bring any proper gifts, let alone a dowry. But he did catch the eye of the King's niece, one Penelope.

Now Penelope was still a bit out of Odysseus' league, but not so much as Helen was. So he makes a deal with the King of Sparta. Support my bid to marry Penelope, and I'll give you a solution to this suitors problem. The King agrees, so Odysseus suggests all the suitors swear an oath to defend Helen's marriage from anyone who might strike against it. They all, including Odysseus, so swear, and Helen is married to Menelaus. The King proves as good as his word, and Penelope is wed to Odysseus.

Of course this means that Odysseus has now bound himself to fight for Helen and Menelaus. After an attempt to feign madness he is forced to fulfill his duty.

> realize every screen displays color slightly differently

> realize every camera captures color a little differently

> realize every format and image editor translates color

> realize every printer deposits ink differently

> realize every kind of paper accepts ink differently

> realize colors look completely different under different lighting conditions

> ok I'm going to do everything greyscale now

> black density changes as ink cartridge depletes and depending on viscosity after multiple prints

> "what color white are you using"

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