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I am Tiresias

Published by jakeallen July 11th, 2006 in travel, Jake's Musings, economics, mythology, history

I bought an airline ticket last week from Louisville (where I live) to Orlando (where I report to my handler) for MORE money than my farefinder gadget just produced. If I had been clairvoyant, I would have known to wait a week. Unfortunately for me, I have a Tiresias complex (not the gender confusion in the classical sense, but the blind prophesy in the Sophocles/Dante/Frank Herbert sense).  I can tell others their future, but they will not believe me, and I am blind to profit personally. Ironic, huh?  Yeah, you don’t want to be in my head.

 

Madness!

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  1. Gravatar Icon 1 +Panagiotis (Pete) Hanley +Panagiotis (Pete) Hanley Jul 11th, 2006 at 8:30 pm

    Jake,

    You have a handler? Like in the CIA? You’re a spook! ;)

  2. Gravatar Icon 2 Sarah (Mrs. Irani) Sarah (Mrs. Irani) Jul 14th, 2006 at 5:29 am

    Isn’t that like Kassandra the prophetess who was always right, but everyone thought she was nuts?

  3. Gravatar Icon 3 jakeallen jakeallen Jul 14th, 2006 at 2:31 pm

    Yeah. Cassandra from “Agamemnon” (rather than Illiad/Odesssy/Aeneid) would have been a better fit for the unbelieved-prophet meme. I chose Tiresias (years ago actually . . . I’ve been using it since high school) because I share his gender. Unfortunately for Tiresias, EVERYONE shares his gender, so it’s a wash. The Biblical Ezekial or Isaiah were also unbelived prophets, but my powers are more mythological than soteriological, so those memes would not have worked for me.

    Alas, I am Tiresias.

    Madness!