A Conversation for The H2G2 University Of Mice
Application: Prof. of Myth and Legend
Lily [-2+1+0+(8*5)+3=42] Started conversation Dec 4, 2002
Name: Lilyan Thomason
Description: Question about grecoroman mythology? Want to know about Wili? The vampires given you chills? Want to know where JK Rowling got her idea for Veelas? Ask me questions and I shall teach the truth about these legends.
May I recieve my degree? Feel free to test me in my knowledge.
-Lily-
Application: Prof. of Myth and Legend
Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) Posted Dec 13, 2002
OK....
Well is there any mention of Pan-Dimensional Super Mice in any of the Myths?
Application: Prof. of Myth and Legend
Lily [-2+1+0+(8*5)+3=42] Posted Dec 14, 2002
Actually, yes.
While the term 'pan-dimensional' is not used, overly intelligent mice are often found in mythology.
Here are but a few examples:
1) Wizard of Oz
Mice help Dorothy... In the poppy field if I'm not mistaken. (story version only)
2) Aesop's Fable: The Mouse and the Lion
http://www.greatbooks.org/library/selections/lion&mouse.shtml
Mouse saves lion and proves that little is not necessarily worse.
3) The Transformed Mouse Who Seeks a Bridegroom
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type2031c.html
Indian myth. A girl seeks to marry the most powerful being. After rejecting the sun, cloud, wind, and mountain. She settles upon the mouse for he is truly the most powerful.
Lilyan
Application: Prof. of Myth and Legend
Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) Posted Dec 16, 2002
If you include Oz as Myth or Legend, then you have to include HHGTTG, in which case, there you go....
.... Which could make us Myths/Legends....
Application: Prof. of Myth and Legend
Lily [-2+1+0+(8*5)+3=42] Posted Dec 17, 2002
Many pardons, I admit, WoOz is not a myth/legend, but rather a piece of literature. However, the myth I originally had there proved slightly faulty, so I hastily replaced it. I do not intend to say that we are, in any way, myths or legends, merely trying to show that the superiority of mice is shown often throughout the past.
Many times, when a damsel is in distress or has some impossible task to fulfill, it is mice that help her. I thought this was true for Psyche and Eros, but I was mistaken, so I simply subsituted in similar situation. If you would prefer for me to leave the literary example and give the basis for that example (aka the myths) then I shall. Whatever it takes to earn the position.
Lilyan
Application: Prof. of Myth and Legend
Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) Posted Dec 19, 2002
I guess WizoOz could eventually become a Myth/Legend...
Yup you may have the position of
what was it again...
Application: Prof. of Myth and Legend
Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) Posted Dec 19, 2002
yes..... its up there isn't it....
Welcome Lily - Professor of Myth and Legendology
Application: Prof. of Myth and Legend
Lily [-2+1+0+(8*5)+3=42] Posted Dec 21, 2002
Many thank you's, I shall fulfill my position to the best of my abilities.
Could we ever actually teach classes? Perhaps through posting a lesson to the Uni or perhaps a guide entry?
...
Lilyan
Professor of Myth and Legendology
Application: Prof. of Myth and Legend
Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) Posted Dec 23, 2002
That'd be a good idea, post a Guide Entry, stick a link here, maybe under a conversation entitled ONGOING CLASSES or something, inviting people across to make comments, ask further questions....
You could set [optional] homework 
in a conversation about your entry...
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Application: Prof. of Myth and Legend
- 1: Lily [-2+1+0+(8*5)+3=42] (Dec 4, 2002)
- 2: Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) (Dec 13, 2002)
- 3: Lily [-2+1+0+(8*5)+3=42] (Dec 14, 2002)
- 4: Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) (Dec 16, 2002)
- 5: Lily [-2+1+0+(8*5)+3=42] (Dec 17, 2002)
- 6: Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) (Dec 19, 2002)
- 7: Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) (Dec 19, 2002)
- 8: Lily [-2+1+0+(8*5)+3=42] (Dec 21, 2002)
- 9: Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) (Dec 23, 2002)
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