Marjolein Robertson
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
We found more of just the most gratuitous part of the story.
It doesn't add any more plot or character development, just it's real saucy.
Was it by the original authors?
That sounds like fanfic to me.
Well, I do like it because I do like how, because I remembered the end in the beginning, but because I think it's a really sweet thing that the lesson in it is for like to carry on is you have these great deeds or these stories written about you or these structures or...
Like he's inadvertently done the things to have immortality because as the innkeeper, no, Utnapishtim.
Utnapishtim said was like community.
Yeah.
Community is what lasts.
If you have a strong community and they carry on the stories.
And it kind of falls in with that beautiful belief in like lots of like indigenous tribes in Turtle Island, like North America, where telling a story about how someone earned their name is telling their true character, which means they're never forgotten.
Mm-hmm.
So, I mean, we had a lot of laughs about Gilgamesh, but you don't forget him.
And I like the idea that then thus telling stories, which is what I want to do, is like, what stories can you tell to remember other people or other things that have happened?
It's nice.
It is nice.
It's really nice.
Well done, us.
So nice.
That's such a nice way to take a message about make it hopeful.