As Realtors we are tied to "Truisms". Ensuring we collect the facts, double check the details, create paper trails, signatures and perform thousands of reality (AKA Realty) checks. Logical reasoning becomes the savior of our existence, or the bain of it.
Perhaps this legal obsession for logical, factual conclusions is the driving force behind our new thirst for Reality Television. Escapism. A chance to compare our lives, assumptions and conclusions with that of another ordinary guy.
Perhaps this is similar to the historical hunger for tales, and mythology, I muse. Stories based on some al evidence - like our new found reality based TV. Selling New York, and House Virgins, Staging and Home Repair shows. Based on Facts. Yet the fictional component raises the entertainment value, making the stories easier to believe, comprehend, and maybe swallow?
Andromeda is just a myth - a story of a maiden, whose proud mother boasted of her daughters great beauty, thereby upsetting the sea God who ravaged the shores, until Apollo dictated the virgin girl be made a sacrifice to appease the God. Tied naked to a rock, Andromeda was sure to die until Perseus came to her rescue. Later at their wedding, (to her hero) another quarrel ensued resulting in a previous suitor being turned to rock. Just like reality TV - kinda true - but Really? Seriously? Until... there in the Mediterranean Sea - I gaze, at her Rock. And in New York - we turn the key and enter the condo.
Andromeda Rock 2008
Slowly eroding - 2011
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