A DEVINE TRAGEDY: 46. On the Beginning of the End

Tags

A Devine Tragedy, Abnegation, Anxiety, Arrogance, automatons, beings, bowels, brothers, Brothers of Personnel, Capitulation, Captain, chariots, Cloistered, Corona, corsairs, Craps, creative man, Creativity, dark of night, Dice, doom, dungeons, Education, equines, Ever Onward, Failure, Frederich Nietzsche, Gluttony, Human bodies, labor, loathing, lust, Machinations, Mail Call, Mankind, measuring devices, Mess hall, Microcomputers, misery, money changers, Money Lenders, Mortared Walls, Nepotism, Originality, Overman, Panoptics, Passion, Perseverance, Personnel, Petier Bruegel the Elder, Pharisees, Phenomena, Poker, Pride, Priest of Personnel, repeated spasms, revelry, searching, Secret Society, seeking, Self Respect, Shylocks, sisters, sloth, smoke, Snake Eyes, spouses, sweat, tax collectors, tears, the body, The Horses, the mind, the seducer, The Seven Somambulists, The State, Time Clocks, Toil, tools, triumph, trumpets, truth, underman, vengeance, vipers, walking wounded, wisdom, Wrath, Zombie

Another Version of The Temptation of St. Anthony by Jan_Mandyn

 

“Believers in patience and wisdom I implore you. Do not exchange gods or leaders as you would exchange a beast of burden. Gods should only be exchanged between lives. Beasts of burden should be exchanged every four seasons. Leaders should never be exchanged. They should be followed. If you can not follow them then abandon them. Forsake them only to themselves.”

Thus Spoke Fred

 

The last cave of knappers in HandOutDorf

was a cavern with many hidden  halls.

One could walk the passageways;

from hall to hall. Each hall

had thinkers, doers,

cipherers and a few

knappers.

 

There was one hall that was much larger than the others.

At times all the thinkers would leave

their own halls and meet there.

At other times the cipherers

would gather there.

Yet at other times

the doers would

gather.

 

The leaders would never be able to gather there

because when they gathered

they lost their leadershipness.

They tried several times but

each time they gathered

they became followers.

 

Leadership had been a fleeting memory.

The puppeteers could pull strings

and action would take place.

The leaders had no strings

to pull, they were not

true leaders.

 

“Some leaders are replaced every four seasons. Others last as long as eight seasons. None last longer. Why this trading of leaders? Nepotism and such.”

Thus asked and answered Fred

Tomorrow: “On Things that Appear Amiss”