'Intellectually disabled' -> 'servant of the king' sounded satirical to me. If I got it wrong, whoops.
I still don't see any chance or compassion in the story. The gods get drunk and have a bet; they decide to cripple some humans as part of their game. The only chance is whether you happen to be one of the humans they pick on for their sport. Shit, in the story, doesn't just happen: the gods, in their caprice, are the ones who maim and strike down. And there's no compassion: Enki does what he does to win the bet.
It might have been different if the story had been, say, that Ninmah was having a bad day and making disabled people and being about to throw them aside when Enki turns up and says 'no you can't do that, look, I'll find them places.' And shows her that actually they can fit. Then there's chance (though it's still saying to disabled people 'you're the less-good creations, the ones that an incompetent god got wrong', which I would object to) and there's compassion.
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Date: 2008-02-05 11:28 pm (UTC)I still don't see any chance or compassion in the story. The gods get drunk and have a bet; they decide to cripple some humans as part of their game. The only chance is whether you happen to be one of the humans they pick on for their sport. Shit, in the story, doesn't just happen: the gods, in their caprice, are the ones who maim and strike down. And there's no compassion: Enki does what he does to win the bet.
It might have been different if the story had been, say, that Ninmah was having a bad day and making disabled people and being about to throw them aside when Enki turns up and says 'no you can't do that, look, I'll find them places.' And shows her that actually they can fit. Then there's chance (though it's still saying to disabled people 'you're the less-good creations, the ones that an incompetent god got wrong', which I would object to) and there's compassion.
But that's not the story.