“Why do I need gas to search for immortality?” Did she know something she wasn’t telling me? “Um, Dear?” I shook her. Maybe that’s why gas prices are going up so high. “Gas?” Will I find immortality on some road? A freeway, perhaps? Or maybe at the gas station? Maybe there’s a secret gas pump that dispenses immortality-I’ll bet it’s the Supreme pump. “Good night.” Then she rolled over and went to sleep. “I think the car needs gas,” she said sleepily. “Good-bye, I’m going to go on a quest, a quest for immortality.” What have I been doing for 47 years? Eating? Sleeping? Reading? What a waste! If I had spent that time looking for the secret to escape death-why I might be immortal now. I threw the book down and decided that I too would search for immortality. I started reading about Gilgamesh the other night while I was in bed and when I got to the place where Gilgamesh decided to search for immortality I was enthralled. Draeger's Adventures: The Gas Station of Immortality Gilgamesh goes on his quest to find immortality and eventually returns to his home. The Last Quest of Gilgamesh completes the story.The Revenge of Ishtar, the second book in this excellent series, tells us how Enkidu’s and Gilgamesh’s friendship has grown and how Ishtar takes her revenge on them for killing the Bull of Heaven.Gilgamesh the King, the first book in this series, tells the story of how Gilgamesh and Enkidu become friends.These three books are lavishly illustrated and faithful to the original story: Along the way he finds friendship and eventually comes to a new understanding of himself and his place in the world. It is the story of a king, part man/part god, who searches for immortality. It is older than Homer’s masterpieces, The Odyssey and The Iliad, dating back to the 3rd millennium B.C. The Epic of Gilgamesh is one of the oldest and most powerful stories that has survived until our day. The poet Rainer Maria Rilke, who read this story often, wrote, “Gilgamesh is an immensity.” The Last Quest of Gilgamesh by Ludmila Zeman | 978-0887763809 The Revenge of Ishtar by Ludmila Zeman | 978-0887764363 Gilgamesh the King by Ludmila Zeman | 978-0887764370 We make a commission if you use the Amazon links on this page.
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