My presentation was fine, even though the mynah birds called “Beal! Beal! Beal!” all the way through it. I went through the twelve Labors, I summarized each one, I established each Labor’s relevance to something in my life, I listed Charles Anthon as my principal reference, and I concluded with a summary of my three main points, which were these: First, by the end of his Labors, Hercules understood that sometimes, he was a jerkface—and he had to live with that and try to do better. Second, by the end of his Labors, Hercules understood that he had been to hell and come back. That meant a
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