[LMB] Immortality for some?

Azalais Aranxta tiamat at tsoft.com
Tue Oct 10 22:15:49 BST 2006


On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Jim Parish wrote:

> Azalais Aranxta attributed suckiness to:
> > the immortality of Endymion (it's weird to type that, as I have a
> > character by that name in something I'm writing), eternal aging.
>
> Endymion, or Tithonus? Hamilton and Bulfinch both describe
> Endymion's fate as eternal youth and eternal sleep (the goddess of the
> Moon had fallen in love with him); Tithonus is the one that Eos fell in
> love with, and who aged forever. Is there another legend about
> Endymion that I'm not aware of?

No, I'm a t00b and shouldn't post from work.

~malfoy :)

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