ossobuco wrote:I don't really think they are the same - the idea was an amusing construct to me. They often post near each other and seem to trade digs freely. I don't read the posts often enough to have clarified each person in some way in my mind.
Mathos tends toward the masochistic.
Spendius tends toward the self-effacing poet who might be starting to experiment with sadism (emotional only, probably not physical).
Mathos is a middle-aged country squire. Somewhat self-satisfied and smug, with a healthy disdain for Spendius. However his imagination is either toned down or just not of the same firepower as Spendius's. Its like Mathos was once fairly sharp, but may have spent too many years at a mind-numbing desk job. This has helped him garden a quite reserved British form of masochism. Mathos is a nice calm monotone gray black acid. Beautiful in its own way, but monotone. Like a gray rock wall.
Spendius is a decent student of the classics, and is capable of moments of clarity and communicating with a fairly damn good muse. On the other hand he has a weakness for the alcohol, as so many writers do. It remains to be seen if this achille's heel will do in his skill for the written word, or if he'll be able to tame the beast and harness its power. Spendius's acid is also dark, but instead of grays and black such as Mathos, Spendius is sometimes able to display dark rainbow colors.
Does that clear it up a bit?
