Post 6 - Angela Tseng

The story of Pygmalion and Galatea is about a famous Greek sculptor from Cyprus named Pygmalion. Pygmalion spent a long time working on a statue of a woman more beautiful than any mortal woman and ended up falling in love with his creation even though it was only marble. He became so infatuated that he brought the statue gifts and clothes that he thought a woman would like. Soon, Aphrodite, the goddess of love, noticed his affections so when Pygmalion went to make a a sacrifice to her she gave him a sign in the form of three shots of fire. When Pygmalion returned home he went to embrace his statue and realized that it was warm and soft like a real woman because Aphrodite had blessed the statue, Galatea, with life.

If I could bring a fictional character to life, I would choose someone like Prospero from The Night Circus. Since he was able to teach his daughter how to do magic I could make him teach me how to do magic too and that'd be great. Even if his methods are a bit unethical (breaking fingers and cutting skin isn't exactly nice...) by the time I was able to do magic it would totally all be worth it. Imagine being able to do pretty much anything you want, fix bones, change objects and create incredible objects.