I don't know if it was me in yoga class the other night thinking "Wow, I've never been injured doing my practice!", or if it was me making fun of the man in the school safety video Slips, Trips and Falls shouting "Ow! I hurt my back!". But, I did. I hurt my back this morning, somehow, doing yoga. Ouch. I'm sorry school safety video and I'm sorry karmic gods who decide these things. Please make me better.
Now, how many Advil is too many?
I think it is because you doubted that Homer had envisaged golden robotic girls when I mentioned it to you last week. Iliad, Book 18, lines 417 and following: "and there moved swiftly to support their lord (Hephaestos) handmaids made of gold in the semblance of living girls. In them is understanding in their minds, and in them speech and strength, and they know cunning handiwork by gift of the immortal gods..." Not living girls, but in their semblance; they have been programmed to do certain tasks by the gods. Hephaestos is thus well-equipped! Wouldn't you like one of his robots to massage your back?
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