EVERY MAN FORGOT HE WAS A SOLDIER AND FLED ...
a line from Herodotus
Has there ever been a tale of greater sorrow told?
Yes. Defenseless box turtles on the busy streets. Deer lost in the woods. A man trying to be chipper when he falls down and sprains his angle and he is 80 years old!
The men who flee are not 80 years old. They have so much to live for!
But they do not have being soldiers to live for. They have fled. Imagine a box turtle. Or a lost deer in a battlefield in the woods. You cannot! That’s OK–there’s no reason to. Let deer be deer, turtle be turtle, the old man the old man, and so on. But ‘on so on’ must stop before the soldier, because, fleeing, they aren’t what they were. Why, they’re not even what they are.
all artwork, except likenesses of Lyndon B. Johnson, by Crispy Flotilla ® 2006
Has there ever been a tale of greater sorrow told?
Yes. Defenseless box turtles on the busy streets. Deer lost in the woods. A man trying to be chipper when he falls down and sprains his angle and he is 80 years old!
The men who flee are not 80 years old. They have so much to live for!
But they do not have being soldiers to live for. They have fled. Imagine a box turtle. Or a lost deer in a battlefield in the woods. You cannot! That’s OK–there’s no reason to. Let deer be deer, turtle be turtle, the old man the old man, and so on. But ‘on so on’ must stop before the soldier, because, fleeing, they aren’t what they were. Why, they’re not even what they are.
all artwork, except likenesses of Lyndon B. Johnson, by Crispy Flotilla ® 2006
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