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SOMEWHERE IN THE COSMOS
(AUGUST 4, 2012)

"Now, where were we?" muttered Zeus.

"I believe I can answer that, Milord."

The Fates looked in the direction of the new voice, and beheld their Aunt Mnemosyne. Mother of their half-sisters, the Muses!

"It began," said the goddess of memory: "...with the revelation that your daughter, Lachesis, had been conducting unauthorized experiments with a pair of mortal brothers; Robert and Gabriel Bullfinch. To the latter (the older brother), she gave nothing but good fortune for his first forty years. While to the former (the younger brother), she gave nothing but bad fortune for thirty-five. Then, she reversed the pattern."

"You approved this, as what would happen to them was partial punishment for the older Bullfinch slandering the Olympics. Thus, both Robert and Gabriel were shrunken down in size, yet made invulnerable. So that they could better endure a number of humiliating experiences (literally!) at the hands of various female athletes."

"At this point, Robert Bullfinch has been treated somewhat more gently, by his captresses, in comparison to his brother."

Zeus thanked Mnemosyne for that concise recapitulaton. Whereupon, the goddess of memory nodded, then teleported away. Following which, Zeus and the Fates resumed their vigil with the magni-scrying glass.

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AQUATIC CENTER

Once more, Bob Bullfinch found himself enshrouded with kinesio-tape...and ensconsed within Wu Minxia's decollete'. And, once more, he felt those not-so-good vibrations as the young Chinese woman began jumping up and down for her individual three meter dive.

"Boing! Boing! Boing! Boing! BOIIIIIIIIIIIIING!"

"MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMPH!"

Up from the springboard, she went! Somersaulting at the top of her arc. And, then, straightening herself out for the first of her five dives.

Bob, however, had once more blacked out by the fourth dive. Ergo; he was not conscious when Wu Minxia's teammate/roommate went next. Not initially, anyway. It was only when He Zi hit the water (at the end of _her_ first individual dive) that he awoke!

KER-SPLASH!

"MMMM--blub--MMMMPH!"

Four dives later, the judges deemed that He Zi had done well enough to take the silver medal for this event. While the gold went to Wu Minxia. And, the two young ladies were so overjoyed by this that they promised to show Bob their utmost appreciation, upon returning to their dorm room.

Although, as they told this to him in Mandarin Chinese, he did not understand a single word of it. It therefore came as quite a shock when he found himself put in an empty Dasani bottle, back at the dorm...and then violently spun around and around. This naturally made him so dizzy that he was initially unable to see that the bottle neck was pointing to He Zi. It was only after she started slobbering him with giant, wet kisses that he came back to his senses!

"No, ple...!"

"MMMMMMMMWAH!"

"Please, sto...!"

"MMMMMMMWAH!"

"Please, n...!"

"MMMMMMMMMMWAH!"

And, as the Fates would have it, it was Wu Minxia who won the next spin.

"Let us let them enjoy themselves, in private," advised Zeus: "We will now turn our attention back to his older brother."

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