Thursday, January 7, 2016

 

Lèse majesté 

One has earned his state of
magnificent arrogance as a 
powerful and majestic force of
nature at her imperious command.
The other imagines itself a
natural force making up in
exuberant impudence what nature
failed to endow it with, but
modesty and humbleness does
not figure in the life of a tiny
black furred creature of the
wild who imagines that all it
surveys represents prime fodder
for its exploitation. Aeolus, in
contrast, a noble and consummate
marshal of the winds truly is
king of all his blowhard subjects
ensuring they remain within the
bounds given them lest they 
trespass their allowances. The
juvenile squirrel on the other
hand cheekily makes familiar
with the deity and there is no
agency of divine retribution
to give it reason to pause.



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