In the days before the internet I once had a roommate who once went out until the wee hours of the morning and then left signs up everywhere saying we had to be quiet due to the roommate’s late night and the fact this person was a light sleeper.The tone of this microwave note reminds me so much of the tone of the ‘be quiet’ notes. So self-righteous, so condescending and so bitchy. Like their notes were to be obeyed without question. Not knowing the notes would be relevant 15 years later I never took a picture of them, alas.The other roommate and I laughed at the signs and ignored them, and wrote a P-A note back and stuck it on the sleeping roommate’s door. It read, “Buy earplugs.”Nov 21, 2008 at 5:09 pm rating: 90.
Key Factsfull title The Epic of Gilgameshauthor The ancient authors of the stories that compose thepoem are anonymous. The latest and most complete version yet found, composedno later than around 600 b.c.,was signed by a Babylonian author and editor who called himselfSin-Leqi-Unninni.type of work Epic poemgenre Heroic quest; heroic epiclanguage Sumerian; Akkadian; Hurrian; Hittite. All these languageswere written in cuneiform script.time and place written Between 2700 b.c. Andaround 600 b.c. InMesopotamia (present-day Iraq)date of first publication Tablet XI of Gilgamesh was first translatedinto English and published in 1872.The first comprehensive scholarly translation to be published inEnglish was R. Campbell Thompson’s in 1930.publisher The Clarendon Press, Oxfordnarrator Most of the epic is related by an objective, unnamednarrator.point of view Third person.
After Enkidu appears in Tablet I, mostof the story is told from Gilgamesh’s point of view. Utnapishtimnarrates the flood story in Tablet XI.tone The narrator never explicitly criticizes Gilgamesh,who is always described in the most heroic terms, but his portrayalof him often includes irony.
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In the first half of the story, Gilgameshis heedless of death to the point of rashness, while in the second,he is obsessed by it to the point of paralysis.
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