Date: Mon, 6 Feb 1995 12:57:24 EST From: alphabet blizzard Subject: EXERCISE: The Day of Mortality In a lecture recently about the molding events in the life of Oe (nobel-prize winning author, I think), the translator mentioned the day that God stepped down and admitted he was mortal (or, in Oe's case, the day the Emperor told the nation he was mortal). Contemplating that... 1. Pick two or three characters. 2. Put them in a situation (resort, work, restaurant, what have you)... 3. And through the doors steps the divine being of your choice (god, goddess, mythological, religious, or otherwise supreme...). The divine being is seeking acceptance as a mere mortal among mortals... What happens? Do your characters accept the divinity as a divinity? Do they accept the divinity as mortal? Why is the divinity doing the mortal bit? Just a break from Mount Olympus (those gods seemed to enjoy slumming...) or has something more serious happened? Are they, in fact, actually mortal? Would you let one marry your brother? And they lived a short, but fulfilling life, thereafter? Not quite the same ring, but maybe there's potential there. Write! tink