Fairy Tales

(From April 2004; some links may not work anymore)

So, it’s Monday. Time to sum up the theme for the week. Ready?

First of all we have In The Beginning: The Journey Of A Lifetime, the cover article from yesterday’s Parade (a weekly ‘magazine’ insert in most U.S. newspapers). Here’s the pull quote from the cover: “When the fall of Saddam Hussein seemed to fling open the doors to the past, I knew that I must go now. And so I began where we are told it all began, at the crossroads of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, in whose lushness once stood the Garden of Eden.”

Next, we have this scintillating story from Reuters, Hunt for Atlantis Leads Researcher to Cyprus. “A U.S. researcher who is convinced the fabled city of Atlantis is lurking in the watery deep off Cyprus will launch an exploratory mission this summer, he said on Monday. ‘We believe our discovery will put Cyprus at the center of the world stage forever,’ Robert Sarmast told Reuters.”

Last (for now) and completing the hat trick, we have this spiffy AP article, Expedition to search for Noah’s Ark. “The goal: to enter what they believe to be a mammoth structure some 45 feet high, 75 feet wide and up to 450 feet long that was exposed in part by last summer’s heat wave in Europe. ‘We are not excavating it. We are not taking any artifacts. We’re going to photograph it and, God willing, you’re all going to see it,’ McGivern said.”

And it’s only Monday.

Next thing you know, they’ll be making movies about Troy or Gilgamesh or something. As if there’s some sort of historical Zeitgeist wandering around the dining room table looking for its place. ;)