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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   On Jan 29, 2025, orpheus wrote   
   (in article ):   
      
   > If you have ever attempted to stare at the sun chances are that it   
   > ended in a sneeze.   
   >   
   > What if while approaching the exit to the underworld with Eurydice   
   > he actually was sneezing and not looking back. Was the fix in for   
   > Orpheus no matter if he indeed break the agreement with Hades. Or   
   > was this a natural reaction to seeing the light at the end of the   
   > metaphorical tunnel. Xenophon would believe this would be a sign of   
   > good luck and maybe Hades had enough of the lyre and wanted   
   > Orpheus' luck to run out. It would have been the most inopportune   
   > moment to sneeze but that is when some bodlily functions find it's   
   > best to let out. Orpheus' story should be revisited and his tragic   
   > ending rewritten if he was victim to a bodily function.   
   >   
   > >   
   > > orpheus   
   >   
   > > If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at   
   > yourself.   
   > -Ben Franklin   
      
   See my description of my sun stare of Sept. 5, 1991, a bit   
   over three sunspot cycles ago, on my Salmon on the Thorns   
   web page.   
      
   Then there is the Lakota Sun Gazing Dance, which might   
   have its origins in a similar sun stare.   
      
   Not everyone sneezes at the sun, but I usually do and   
   one of my siblings does as well. But I didn’t on that   
   day in 1991.   
      
   --   
   David Dalton dalton@nfld.com https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)   
   https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   “But them hungry bears'd rather they be free   
   Oh merry Mary won't you marry me" (Bill Bourne)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)