Feathered Creatures
Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.
Thomas Hobbes
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Woody Allen
Hope indeed must have feathers-- for like Its Cousins, It sharpens Its beak against Its breast, staining a wing with a brightly colured streak (of red?). Prometheus knew It all too well. He who gave us Fire out of Hope for our survival against the Night:
Hope tears away at what one would have for a heart. Harden yourself then. Let Its claws scrabble against marble. Its beak strike against eyes made of granite. My heart is stone upon stone-- a cairn within a cairn.
Thomas Hobbes
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Woody Allen
Hope indeed must have feathers-- for like Its Cousins, It sharpens Its beak against Its breast, staining a wing with a brightly colured streak (of red?). Prometheus knew It all too well. He who gave us Fire out of Hope for our survival against the Night:
Hope tears away at what one would have for a heart. Harden yourself then. Let Its claws scrabble against marble. Its beak strike against eyes made of granite. My heart is stone upon stone-- a cairn within a cairn.
posted by The Devil's Little Helper at 3:57 AM
2 Comments:
Hope is no adversary. It is the cousin of chance. A chance to break into the cairn and find that which is marked or buried.
Hope's a human invention. And like most things made by hands of Clay, it is fallible-- it cracks when shown to the Sun and runs at the thought of Tears. Perversity is a character most evident in Man and his inventions.
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