Sri Lanka: Eris And Elections
| by Tisaranee Gunasekara
“Experience showed that even the simplest events always worked out differently from what one would have thought beforehand.”
Thomas Mann (The Magic Mountain)
( November 20, 2014, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) In modern parlance it would be called a prequel - to the Trojan War. Eris, Goddess of Discord, appears uninvited at the wedding banquet of Peleus and Thetis and throws the eponymous apple amongst the assembled guests, seeding collision, strife and war.
