why herc rescued promethus

I was reading a book some years ago about the history of languages.  I think there are maybe five or so different major language groups and he traced them back and seemed to be happy at the end that he had traced them all back to one common language, but it was all pretty shaky and I wasn't convinced.  Well languages change all the time, you get a people all talking the same language and then something happens where they get separated and in a couple hundred years they can't understand each other.

So that story about the sons (are they actually called sons?  I can see where that would wreak havoc with the new testament) of god interbreeding with the daughters of men is actually in the bible?  I suppose we never hear about these giants again.  It does seem like it was something that somebody just slipped in while nobody else was looking.  I think a lot of the Persian religion shows up in the early books of the bible and since the Jews were hanging there for awhile you can see how that would happen.

It's interesting these movies come out, and a lot of times you will read the critics come up with comments like that was what the war in Vietnam was like, or that is how life is in the ghetto, and I am always thinking how the hell do they know?  The directors, the critics, the audience, how do they know what the war or the ghetto are like to compare it to? 

I just saw this movie Leviathan, set in Russia.  This guy has his ancestral home and the local party boss decides he wants to build something there, so he condemns the land and offers to pay maybe a third of what it is worth.  The guy has an old army buddy who is now a lawyer in Moscow, and they go through the legal motions but the local law is all in the pocket of the party boss, but the lawyer has dug up some dirt on the party boss and pretends to have the ears of some big shots in Moscow.  The party boss kidnaps the lawyer and gives him a mock execution which sends him scrambling back to Moscow, meanwhile the guy's wife has slept with the lawyer and this caused all kinds of trouble so she commits suicide and then just for the hell of it they charge the guy with murdering his wife and railroad him into a 15 year sentence.

It was a good movie, I like them bleak, and afterwards I went to Rotten Tomatoes to read the reviews.  I was curious as to whether they thought the lawyer had been motivated to help his buddy or was he into it just to sleep with his wife, but all the reviewers were like, see this is how life is in Russia these days, and I was all like what, this could have happened anywhere.  It could have happened in Chicago, though with a little less brutality and certainly less drinking of vodka.

It does go along with that life imitating art imitating life thing.  You read a book in your youth about some guy, oh, standing up for what he believes in, and then sometime later in life, bolstered by that book, you stand up for something you believe in, and are successful and then some guy writes a book about you, and later in life he stands up etc.

Oh I like Prometheus.  Fuck his titan heritage, those guys were a bunch of assholes.  Didn't Saturn try to eat Jupiter?  And he self-sacrificed to help man, that's us.  Where is your gratitude?  I think the Greeks began to feel bad about having this great man chained up with that pesky bird, and that's why somebody later on decided to have Hercules, the Rambo of his day, free him.  That's the power of the pen.  If that same guy who wrote that was making movies today he would have had that lawyer guy keep his pants zipped and smashed the party boss and when the wife was jumping off the cliff she would have been caught by her husband in the nick of time.  That's art Jack.