Pygmalion and Galatea is an incredibly moving tale. It succeeds in inspiring every living female's stomach to throw up its contents all over the nearest male. As the story goes: Pygmalion was born with an inordinate amount of pride and selfishness, and after meeting and passing--seemingly unfair--judgement on every woman in Greece, he came to the conclusion that no woman there or anywhere would or could meet his standards for a lover, and therefore he would never marry. So, Pygmalion sculpts a "perfect" woman, a figure which shamed all mortal women, which of course pleased Pygmalion. He becomes so infatuated with his creation that at a festival celebrating Aphrodite, he makes a lousy request for the ivory to waken and be his "virgin wife." Aphrodite somehow took this request as a complement to herself and granted him his ivory plaything for a wife.
The character I'd most like to bring to life is agent Dale Cooper of the hit 90s mystery television show called Twin Peaks.
Dale Cooper is a suave and charming young man in the prime of his career as an FBI investigator, but these are not the best of his qualities: he is first and foremost a fantastic detective and a man of outstanding moral character.
Agent Cooper is sent to this remote northwestern locale to help solve the case of the mysterious disappearance of high schooler Laura Palmer. Being an outsider investigating in a small town, he is at first unwelcome among the citizens of Twin Peaks and the members of the local police department. But with his commitment to justice and to the protection of the people, he soon proves himself worthy of his position in the investigative team, and in a particularly warming episode he is given an honorary deputy's badge as a symbol of appreciation.
Throughout an increasingly complex and intense investigation he remains courageous, many times risking his life to uncover the truth. And even when his job is on the line, and he is under FBI questioning for legal misconduct, his first priority is honesty.
Steadfast and down to Earth, Agent Cooper is the kind of person every town needs, the kind of person I'd love to see sitting in my local diner pleasantly ordering his "cup of joe, side of dough."
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