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Side note: I know that IQ tests are essentially worthless and tell you very little about the actual intelligence of a human being.
But it was the prospect of having something on paper that may indicate I wasn’t lacking as much as he liked to tell me that I was that made him so nervous. It was a bit satisfying. I’m sure I paid for it later.
One day, i had the audacity to not share his opinion.
After the usual screamfest he insisted that one day we would take an IQ test to prove once and for all that I was an idiot and he was smarter. He told me that I should shut the fuck up or I would feel extra stupid that day.
In one of my rare moments of defiance, i asked very politely, what would happen if, by some accident, I scored higher than him. I saw a split second of “oh shit” in his eyes before he said “then we would know that the test was faulty because that’s not possible.”
You know, I don’t think he ever brought it up again.
Thetis with the arms of Achilles
I saw several mosaics depicting this motive and decided to try my hand at it as well.
Also, I just find Thetis to be quite interesting as a character. There’s gotta be something fundamentally Tragic about raising a child, knowing that he will most likely die very young.
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