“Look!” says Zenothemis, “I see the Parthenon! The Parthenon is beautiful.”
“It is true,” says Dikaiopolis.
See the Parthenon. See the Parthenon run.
“Look, O Dikaiopolis! The Parthenon runs!” says Zenothemis.
The captain sees the Parthenon. “It is true! The Parthenon runs! Oh, Zeus, are we not safe?”
“I see the Parthenon also,” says the ship.
See the ship. See the ship talk. Talk, ship, talk.
The captain says, “I hear a sound. Do you hear a sound?”
“Yes, the ship is talking,” says the rhapsode who doesn’t have a name.
“The ship is not talking, because ships do not talk,” says the captain.
See the captain. See the captain pretend ships do not talk.
“I talk,” says the ship.
“I do not hear the ship,” says Zenothemis. “Look, I see the Parthenon.”
See the Parthenon. See Zenothemis. See Zenothemis become obsessive compulsive.
“Ships do not talk,” says the captain.
“The ship talks,” says the rhapsode. “For it is a black, swift, hollow ship on a wine-faced sea.”
See the ship. See the brown ship. See the ship traveling at two miles per day. Travel brown ship, travel.
“The ship is not black,” says Zenothemis.
“The ship is not swift,” says the previously silent Hegestratos.
“The ship is not hollow,” says the captain.
“The sea is blue,” says Dikaiopolis.
“Homer says otherwise,” says the rhapsode, puffing himself up with self-importance.
See the captain. See the captain throw the rhapsode into the sea. See the rhapsode drown because rhapsodes are too busy learning poems to learn how to swim. Drown, rhapsode, drown!
And there was much rejoicing.
Indeed all would have been well in the world were it not for one slight temporal spatial maladjustment. This minor temporal spatial maladjustment resulted in a large purple dinosaur appearing on the deck.
“Look!” says Zenothemis, “I see a monster! The monster is bad!”
“It is true,” says Dikaiopolis.
See Barney. See Dikaiopolis. See Barney eat lunch.
“Dikaiopolis is good,” says Barney.
See Zenothemis. See Zenothemis run in terror. Run, Zenothemis, run!
The captain is not afraid of Barney. See the captain try to stab Barney. See Barney begin to sing.
“I love you. You love me. We’re a happy family, with a great big hug and a kiss from me to you. Won’t you say you love me, too!”
See the captain. See the captain faint in agony. See Barney have dessert.
See Hegestratos jump off the ship and join the rhapsode. See him drown too because he also does not know how to swim, because in a mountainous country like Greece no one learns to swim.
See Barney jump up and down in a temper tantrum because all his little friends ran away. Jump, Barney, jump!
See the boat take all the gravity accelerated mass of a several ton dinosaur on its deck. See the ship sink. Sink, ship, sink!
And they all died.
The End.
Quick! Flee back to the PRivy!
