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Gilgamesh Return
Jacob Esworthy
2/18/13
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Return of Mr. G I will be doing, “The Return of Mr. G,” for my first paper. I plan to show that Gilgamesh did indeed change throughout the epic and how this return to what seems a repeat of the story is in fact happening because of Gilgamesh’s new and improved lifestyle. The reason I picked this topic was because during class discussion I had many great ideas, which I did and purposely did not share because I knew I would either blog and/or write my paper about the topic. Pretty much I had already thought of many textual references for this topic. Most of which are quotes from tablet X, such as “No one at all sees Death…”(Gilgamesh 86). This in my eyes means that no one sees death coming but when

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