Mastodawn

It seems that everywhere I turn at the moment I encounter a book (e.g., Murakami), film (Cocteau), music (Stravinsky, Monteverdi), painting, or whatever, that has some connection to Orpheus and his descent to the underworld in search of Eurydice.

Wildbird 1d ago

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Richard Littler

Just wow.
I Googled to see if 18th century artist Henry Fuseli had ever painted Orpheus and Eurydice, and AI overview said: "It appears you may be blending the tragic Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice with the distinct, spiraling noodle known as fusilli"

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James 1d ago

@Richard_Littler Join the club, Rich. I'm always doing that.

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Jon Roach 1d ago

@Richard_Littler <all of Europe up in arms at the casual description of fusilli as "noodles">

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Ambulocetus 1d ago

@FourT4 @Richard_Littler
wait till you hear what they call Farfalle

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allrite 1d ago

@Richard_Littler Personally, I'd probably use a Roman myth instead as a sauce for my pasta, but you do you. Maybe add some pineapple as well?

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Hilary 1d ago

@Richard_Littler

Whereas I found this immediately by searching the non-AI version of Duck Duck Go with "did henry fuseli paint orpheus and eurydice"

https://www.jstor.org/stable/24555294

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Petra van Cronenburg 1d ago

@regordane 👍🏼 @Richard_Littler

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Hilary 1d ago

@Richard_Littler

I just tried "fuseli orpheus eurydice" - as an experiment, to see what would happen using a search strategy that WASN'T informed by knowing what Google got wrong.

It actually worked better. The link came up as the first result, whereas for "did henry fuseli paint orpheus and eurydice" it came second under the Wikipedia entry for Fuseli.

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