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re-approaching normal; maybe it'll stick this time. After the startling realization that I was the one who needed sleep, rather than any number of figments of my imagination who apparently wanted me to sleep for them, I did in fact sleep a nice solid 6 hours straight last night, plus a couple nice solid blocks of time before and after, and have eaten more than once and stayed more or less awake most of today. My mother handed me a book this morning (Garth Nix, Mister Monday) which was pretty good... a little weird linguistically (part of the premise is that one of the characters is part of the Will of the creator of All, and there is a great deal of writing as power/making real) but an interesting slightly different take on the various western mythologies that tend to get mixed up together. Two things about it, though; first off, the "real world" from which the main character comes is succeptible to pretty serious (millions die in a few days sort of thing) infulenza epidemics, which isn't entirely the sort of thing one wants to read about while sick (well, ok, except for one of my ex-boyfriends who said he read The Stand every time he was sick...(which I haven't actually read, hence why I didn't catch your reference earlier, grauwulf, before I just looked up the wikipedia entry to make sure I had the title right)) despite that I don't feel the least bit inclined to die off at present.

But the other thing, that's sort of minorly annoying me: Why is it that people in children's fantasy books never recongize Prometheus? I mean, I've known who the chained counter-authority figure was for as long as I can remember (so definitely elementary school, probably 4th or 5th grade?) but kids much older than that totally fail to recognize him in fiction. Is this an authors underestimating their characters thing, or are most people really that clueless about basic mythology?