Mar 09, 2026
Lost Lucianic Dialogue:
Minos: Oh woe is me, all my wonderful wealth gone!
Midas: Woe is greater with me, for my wealth was greater and my squalor in hades now worse!
Cassandra: Come now, why do you both lament what was inevitable, listen to yourselves weeping like ravished women.
Oedipus: Indeed, how pathetic they are so lost in a fate they had no choice but to accept.
Cassandra: For those of us who knew our future, it seems what we thought was a curse, the gods gave us a unique gift of clarity.
Minos: It is like you to be indifferent prophetess. But I was a wealthy king who had riches taken from him through no choice of his own.
Midas: I too, but I had even more riches!
Oedipus: You did nothing to gain those riches, you did nothing to lose them. This was your fate, and yet you blame yourself for things that you should see clearly.
Midas: I will not be told about clarity of sight from a blindman!
Oedipus: You take that back motherf***!
Minos: Back at you!
Persephone enters:
Persephone: What is the purpose of this silly argument! Those in Elysium have submitted complaints about the noise.
Cassandra: Queen of The Nether realm, these men are mad. Their obsession with their helplessness has made them bitter towards us.
Minos: They mock us, bride of hades, we seek to lament the wealth we failed to protect with condescension and fatalism.
Midas: What say you, goddess?
Persephone: Not I, instead hear what the Queen of Olympos, Hera, High She-god, says of this matter. "Destiny can only be fulfilled if the one it concerns chooses to accept it. It calls him, but it doesn't force him."
Cassandra: What!
Oedipus: What!
Midas: Ha! See that Oedipus? Oh wait...
Oedipus: My father....my mother....my choice? Oh if i could gouge my eyes out once again.
Cassandra: To think i chose to watch Troy burn. To stand helplessly and watch that wicked queen Clytemnestra. That I allowed Apollo... Oh gods is the Lathe not strong enough to quench the burning of my mind.
Oedipus: Oh curse my unhappy name and life.
Cassandra: Oh woe be upon me for mine.
Minos: Well, I don't know about you Midas, but I certainly feel better.