Cupid's Two Arrows

To understand my new blogs, Gold-tipped and Lead-tipped, take in this story of Cupid, Apollo and Daphne from Thomas Bullfinch's Mythology (as copied from About.com):

Daphne was Apollo's first love. It was not brought about by accident, but by the malice of Cupid. Apollo saw the boy playing with his bow and arrows; and being himself elated with his recent victory over Python, he said to him, "What have you to do with warlike weapons, saucy boy? Leave them for hands worthy of them, Behold the conquest I have won by means of them over the vast serpent who stretched his poisonous body over acres of the plain! Be content with your torch, child, and kindle up your flames, as you call them, where you will, but presume not to meddle with my weapons."


Venus's boy heard these words, and rejoined, "Your arrows may strike all things else, Apollo, but mine shall strike you." So saying, he took his stand on a rock of Parnassus, and drew from his quiver two arrows of different workmanship, one to excite love, the other to repel it. The former was of gold and sharp pointed, the latter blunt and tipped with lead. With the leaden shaft he struck the nymph Daphne, the daughter of the river god Peneus, and with the golden one Apollo, through the heart. Forthwith the god was seized with love for the maiden, and she abhorred the thought of loving.

Thus is the basis for my 2 new blogs - one is "gold and sharp pointed" to excite love, the other "blunt and tipped with lead" to repel love.

Let me know what you think.

To Be Continued...

I'm putting this Arrow back in the quiver. Thank you for coming here at least once and read me shoot if off. Pun intended.

The reason is simple. It was consistent -- consistently stagnant. There were always other things to do that I couldn't seem to update this blog (or any of the other blogs I started) on a regular basis. I wanted keep the blog updated but I just couldn't seem to work it out.

So back in the quiver it goes.

I'm keeping the blog up, though, for reference. Who knows? Maybe I'll even continue it.

Like the title suggests, a continuation is in the offing. I have plans to unsheathe of a couple of new arrows in place of this one. Maybe you're unaware but legend has it that Cupid is known to have two types of arrows - one to inspire love (or desire) and another to inspire hate (or repulsion). I think I should somehow make use of these two arrows. Good luck to me! :)