Jon Corelis wrote:
>> but I got a look at what 25 years on your knees
>
> Eventually you wake up one morning to find you've been transformed
> into some sort of monstrous insect.
>
> [I've always thought that was one of the great comic scenes in
> literature. He's lying there thinking, "O my god! I'm an insect and
> can't turn over off my carapace -- I'll be late to work! I'll lose my
> job! Twenty years faithful service but do they care? No, you miss
> one day because you've been turned into a giant insect and they just
> ..." Well I thought it was funny.]
It actually IS funny. I think of Iago's line: "And when he's old,
cashiered." Iago wasn't totally wrong, as I take it. He just misused
his insights into how the world works. Sometimes I really do think the
reigning deity is named Ben Dover.
Ken
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Kenneth Wolman www.kenwolman.com rainermaria.typepad.com
I wouldn't want to have lived without having offended someone.--Anon.
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