Tuesday's House MD

[scarfman]

Of course the rebuttal to, "God doesn't limp," ought to have been, "Neither did you, last week."

Comments

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think what House said was: "God doesn't limp." And in my own head, my response was: "That depends on which god."

Hephestus was paralysed from the waist down.

But you're line is more sarcastic, so...

[scarfman]

Corrected. Thanks (though my mother got to me with it first).

Yeah, I thought of Hephaestus too. Though given the patient's hallucinations it would have been a better laugh as a reference to his Roman name, Vulcan.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Yeah.. Hephestus/Vulcan really is a Greek god: Laughed at by other the other gods for having gimpy legs, he nonetheless gets Aphrodite to marry him by his skill as a jeweler (yes, she sleeps around, but come on, she's Aphrodite). And, to comentsate for his physical weakness, he builds himself two humanoid servants: one of silver, and one of gold. ...Among the earliest appearance of androids in Western literature (I'm not sure if the Talmudic tradition of a Golum counts as an android).