So they’re upstairs retelling the story of the Minotaur, in which Theseus kills the Minotaur and then sails home triumphant.\u00c2\u00a0 But since in his glee he forgets to change the color of the sails on his ship before setting sail homeward, his father the king sees the black sails and, distraught, throws himself into the sea.\u00c2\u00a0 My kids don’t get to the denouement, however; they get caught up in the part where Theseus slays the Minotaur.\u00c2\u00a0 I mean, kills the Minotaur.\u00c2\u00a0 I mean, destroys.\u00c2\u00a0 Decapitates.\u00c2\u00a0 Murders.\u00c2\u00a0 And so on.<\/p>\n
“There sure are a lot of words for making someone die, aren’t there?” says T, and off they go again.\u00c2\u00a0 Heck, I don’t know if *I* could have come up with so many on such short notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So they’re upstairs retelling the story of the Minotaur, in which Theseus kills the Minotaur and then sails home triumphant.\u00c2\u00a0 But since in his glee he forgets to change the color of the sails on his ship before setting sail … Continue reading