Classical Literature with Rational Actors
Scene 1: The Oracle at Delphi
Oracle: Your son will grow up to kill his father and have sex with his mother.
Laius: That sounds bad.
Jocasta: Indeed; I’m opposed to that scenario. We should give him to a herdsman and ask the herdsman to set him out on a rock to die of exposure.
Laius: Or we could, you know, kill him ourselves. Just to be sure.
Jocasta: See, this is why you’re the king.
They kill the baby Oedipus
The end.
February 22nd, 2009 at 8:54 pm
I like it. Will there be Scene 2?
February 23rd, 2009 at 9:45 am
No need for scene two! The point of rational actors is that they solve their problems in scene one.
February 23rd, 2009 at 9:06 pm
I liked it, and just wanted to see another one :’ (
March 9th, 2009 at 9:54 am
Rational actor would have ignored the oracle.
March 12th, 2009 at 9:47 am
Not if the Oracle was reliably correct!
March 27th, 2009 at 1:30 am
Classical guitar with a rational actor: Pluck, pluck, pluckety-pluck, pluck, strum, strum, pluck, strum, pluck, plucky strum, strummy pluck, plummy stuck, stummie puck, pluckstrum, plumstruck, punchdrunk, pluck, strum, twiddle, twiddleplump, plucky diddle, Bachy strum, twiddlepluckystrum, pluck.
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