Status Updates From The Epic of Gilgamesh

lecturer just compared gilgamesh to snoopy, it's the pinnacle of literature

"If I tell you the way things are in the netherworld,
You will be sitting there weeping [...] The penis that when you felt it, you were thrilled,
That penis is there like a rotten timber, vermin eat it. The sweet spot that you said of it, “Where is it? Let me at it!” That sweet spot is there like a crack in parched ground, full of dust.
“Woe is me!" cried the lord, he sat down in the dust."


#cursed. no sex in hell

Enkidu, my friend whom I have loved, is turned to clay
Shall I too not lie down like him, and never get up forever and ever?

After his death I could find no life

… This then is the work of mankind, he who is alive should be happy

Dense was the darkness, no light was there