-Jonathan SwiftThe Sick Lion and the Ass
A lion sunk by time's decay,
Too feeble grown to hunt his prey,
Observed his fatal hour draw nigh:
He drooped and laid him down to die.
There came by chance a savage boar,
Who trembled oft to hear him roar,
But when he saw him thus distressed
He tore and gored his royal breast.
A bull came next (ungen'rous foe),
Rejoiced to find him fall'n so low,
And with his horny-armed head
He aimed at once to strike him dead, -
He strikes, he wounds, he shocks in vain,
The lion still conceals his pain.
At length a base inglorious ass,
Who saw so many insults pass,
Came up and kicked him in the side:
'Twas this that raised the lion's pride.
He roused, and thus he spoke at length,
For indignation gave him strength:
Thou sorry, stupid, sluggish creature,
Disgrace and shame and scorn of nature!
You saw how well I could dispense
With blows from beasts of consequence!
They dignified the wounds they gave;
For none complain who feel the brave.
But you, the lowest of all brutes,
How ill your face with courage suits!
What dullness in thy looks appears!
I'd rather far (by heav'n 'tis true)
Expire by these than live by you:
A kick from thee is double death -
I curse thee with my dying breath!
The Moral
Rebukes are easy from our betters,
From men of quality and letters;
But when low dunces will affront,
What man alive can stand the brunt?
Does a Nemean Lion loyal to Aderasteia await the Ass? Not being "experts", we can only hope for the day in which the Boojum arrive to feast upon the Snark of equus asinus.
Jonathan Swift was a brilliant satirist and great master of the language.
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ReplyDeleteJust another pawn in the veritable army of ignoble, trollish bloodsuckers who try in vain every day to make President Trump look inept. foolish, ill-informed and dangerous.
I say FUCK the bastard, even though that is doubtless what he would like most to happen to his sorry faggot ass.
Over @TI there were still a few hardcore Trump groupies trying to defend the Quack-in-Chief, claiming it was all a 'Medjah Witchfinder' conspiracy to put words into the Orange One's yuuuuuge mouth.
ReplyDeleteThey fell finally silent when the OM then claimed that what he had said was merely a 'sarcastic question' directed at journalists!
Personally, I want my CINC to ask questions of the experts. In this the "Democratic Age", the University Discourse carries more "Authority" than the Master's Discourse within the "hysterical discourse" of journalists within the population at large.... but it is only through the 'hysterical' questioning of the Master that you can gain insight into the SuperEgo priorities dominating the Master's Discourse. And it's clear that the "University professors" of expertise and perceived authority had better get crackin' at modifying their discourse to better suit their Master's wishes. He's demanding innovation in their world dominated by the civil servant's job safety inherent in tradition, standardization and bureaucracy.
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Those who make a career of asking the latter deserve D____E____A____T____H____!
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The Founding Fathers never intended us to live under a MENDACITOCRACY admnistered by a subverted, demented, enemy-indoctinated TRAITORS.