‘The challenge may be said
to exist regardless of recognition;
acceptance or turning away being
only of value according to
each life ‘s unique metre.’ answered
the youth – or something similar –
whereat the astonished phantasm, purring ,
gave off pheromones that
turned part of him to
stone. ‘Miaou, ‘ she uttered, that
being vernacular for: ‘Mount me,
big boy.’ “But then,” he
told her, in media res:
‘That being so, none but
myself can judge ~what this
….O!”He became incoherent, mistaking
vast devastation for high excitement,
subsequent catatonia for satiation:
had he looked back as
he walked away
and noticed the quick petrifaction
he would have felt only
smugger and whistled, sauntering along
the country road to Thebes.