PreTeena by Allison Barrows for April 09, 2011

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    bergamot  almost 14 years ago

    What exactly was Teena reading from? Does someone recognize a specific book?

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    johnph77  almost 14 years ago

    Medea, by Euripides - strangeā€¦..

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    gimmickgenius  almost 14 years ago

    And Stick is ā€˜The Oddity.ā€™

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    hekko Premium Member almost 14 years ago

    By the snakes, Iā€™d say itā€™s a description of Medusa.

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    hawgowar  almost 14 years ago

    Bullfinchā€™s Mythology.

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    Weakstream   almost 14 years ago

    I think its something by Stevan King

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    coloharpare Premium Member almost 14 years ago

    Itā€™s apparently from a play by Euripedes, called ā€œHeraclesā€. Written in 416 BCE and indeed referring to Medusa or one of her sisters, all of whom are Gorgons. Exactly WHY Teena is reading such an obscure piece is unclearā€¦.

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    Weakstream   almost 14 years ago

    I still think its Steven King

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    yuggib  almost 14 years ago

    Jerri is the ā€œairhead blondā€ while her sister Teena, and her friend Stick are the atypical extremely smart honor students. Stick will probably grow up into a gorgeous woman, as will Teena, and both will continuously have to live down there childhood names, have great careers as assistant department heads of some research organization, have children like Jerri - good looking but lacking the brains of a flea, be married to boozing bozos who abuse them in some way (and each of them ā€œcheatā€ on the girls with Jerri.)

    Any ā€œugly ducklingā€™sā€ who turned into ā€œthe girl next door beautiesā€ in their late teens/early twenties whose life doesnā€™t follow this scenario are both extremely lucky and very fortunate, and my elderly hate is off to you.

    No one need comment about my being a ā€œbitterā€ female. Iā€™m 6ā€™6ā€ and male, very hetero, and have experience in various nursing specialties, Emergency Care being one, immunology (see ā€œFor Better or Worseā€) for another, and burn research for a third. But I have seen what I described happen on one too many occasions. May those, beauties of not, find peace sometime and somewhere before itā€™s too late on this side of the veil.

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