oh, I think I'm going to have to write

[bedlamsbard]

Ahahahaha, realpestilence, guess what I'm reading about now in my theatre book:

Befitting their patron deity, all the Dionysian festivals involved drinking enormous quantities of wine. AT the Anthesteria, each participating man, woman, and child began the festivities by tossing down a two-liter jug at a single sitting. Wine drinking continued throughout the three days of this festival, which also included bull sacrifices and dismemberments, the consuming of hallucinogenic mushrooms, and the ecstatic dithyrambic dance-chants, led by a group of fifty goatskin-clan, phallos-bearing priests. The dithyramb concluded with a sacred marriage ritual in which drunken women danced around the phallos, adorned with a bearded mask, after which the tribal queen was "given" to "Dionysus." Although we don't know exactly how this gift was delivered, historians believe that real sexual intercourse took place, accompanied by cheers from the rhapsodic throng.

I feel so inspired.

Comments

[franceica.livejournal.com]

I think I have a love/hate relationship with your Peter/Narnia. On the one hand it makes so much sense and it is so tragically beautiful and everything; but on the other hand it is so traumatic that I want to kill something. *screams*
OMG Peter. How did you survive?

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Well, when you don't see the fall coming, it's easy... And there was the amnesia, that one time. That helped. Unfortunately. And after that, he was too used to it to remember that the world was different once.

[franceica.livejournal.com]

To him it probably helped.

But I feel like I am completely traumatized by Narnia simply by reading about it. *facepalm*

Oh my god, Peter.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Well, if it helps, I don't think any of this has come out in the text (my text, that is) yet.

Narnia was totally a happy, wholesome relationship for Peter! Except for all that stuff.