VLVL2 (9): "a room of her own" and WORK

[Tim Strzechowski]

Task orientation, laborious undertaking, or exertion / activity directed
toward a specific purpose or end:


> Well, Genesis is about Work, that's true, but Odysseus wanted to stay
> home and work the farm but that would have been pretty boring Journey
> and war is always more interesting than work, GR is better because its a
> bout war, anyway with a name like Ulysses ...

Well, but Odysseus is also a Boss-man, The Man who must keep his employees
in line and away from the lotus . . .

and the Green Knight
> doesn't work, he's on a mission from God,

which in itself is a hellava JOB . . .

Don Q, likewise, is
> technically and chivalristically unemployed,

not collecting legal tender, that's for sure, but ridding the countryside of
scum, villainy, and pesty windmills . . .

the Canterbury pilgrims all
> have professions, but they are on a pilgrimage,

and their task (read: WORK) for the duration is to tell stories for
entertainment and diversion . . .

Paradise Lost is not
> about God's work but about God's ways ....

and talk about an epic metaphor for how a Boss has to reprimand shitty
employees . . .

War and Peace is about war
> and peace ....
>

well . . . yeah, it IS about war and peace.  You're right *there*, man.