Comments on: Wow. Just… wow.

By: london_meeja_whore

london_meeja_whore — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:16:05 +0000

Indeedy. There is a pic on wikipedia of a bronze statue of Paddington in the station. As I recall they keep moving the statue around so nobody can find it.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f7/PaddingtonStation-PaddingtonBear.jpg

By: annie lou

annie lou — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 03:14:31 +0000

Hahah, right.. that 9 and three-quarters sign… or something *shifty eyes* I wouldn’t know…

Paddington Bear is awesome! I didn’t know he was named after a station.

By: london_meeja_whore

london_meeja_whore — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:01:46 +0000

Hm, I’m not at King’s Cross very often (being a sarf Lahndaner) but I think you’re right that it does have some display or another.

There’s a great Paddington Bear stand to buy toys & memorabilia at Paddington station, but I suppose that’s not quite the same thing; as he was named after the station.

By: Eric Brown

Eric Brown — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 03:21:22 +0000

I find it funny that the King’s Cross station in London pays tribute to Harry Potter.

By: london_meeja_whore

london_meeja_whore — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:19:05 +0000

Sorry

By: annie lou

annie lou — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:22:04 +0000

Man, you’re a party pooper.

By: london_meeja_whore

london_meeja_whore — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:42:00 +0000

Hmm, I don’t know if this helps to figure out who is actually funding the venture, but a link on their homepage gives a bit more information about the ‘who’ –

http://www.odysseus-unbound.org/sponsorship.html

Homer’s Odyssey wasn’t originally a book, it was a traditional song-poem which was performed orally. There is some debate about whether Homer actually ‘wrote’ it. I think the reason why historians would find it so interesting is because the poem incorporates a lot of legend alongside historical events and places. Your analogy doesn’t quite fit. In modern times, we have the accepted concept of ‘fantasy book’ like the Harry Potter series, which we know to be fantasy. Then, and in that culture, their demigods, monsters, and heroes weren’t fantasies. I’m sure there are lots of folks who do deliberately search out the places where Harry Potter is filmed. At least looking for Ithaka has some kind of academic, ethnographic, and historical significance, whereas the Potter fans are seen as just pathetic.