As part of my ongoing anthropological, sociological, and psychological exploration of the primitives on Skins's island, I'm constantly coming across new and different ways to look at the primitives (besides in puzzled amusement).
While reading about the Black Death (the bubonic plague) in Europe (1347-1349), I came across a reference to Erysichthon, famous in ancient Greek mythology as a destroyer of the earth.
(By the way, this is neither here nor there, but useful to know; the political correctionists are trying to disavow the responsibility of medieval yellow people in China and medieval brown people in India for the bubonic plague, instead trying to make it the white man's burden, medieval white men in Europe, who then apparently managed it so as to retroactively affect these other places, other races.)
Erysichthon destroyed a valuable orchard, and as punishment, was given an insatiable hunger; the more he devoured, the more he wanted.
He ate up everything under the sun, but still wanted more.
In the end, Erysichthon consumed his own self.
Anybody besides franksolich see the blatant similarities between the primitives on Skins's island, and this long-ago Erysichthon?
edited to correct misspelled word; sorry for the inconvenience, it won't happen again
