Paganistan: Notes from the Secret Commonwealth
In Which One Midwest Man-in-Black Confers, Converses & Otherwise Hob-Nobs with his Fellow Hob-Men (& -Women) Concerning the Sundry Ways of the Famed but Ill-Starred Tribe of Witches.
Hero's Choice
Taking Silver
Oh, well. I never really wanted to be Achilles anyway.
It's the classic hero's choice: a short, heroic life, but remembered forever, or a long, uneventful one, and then forgotten.
Given the choice, which would you take?
Remember AIDS?
If I'd had the heroic beauty that I always wanted, I'd probably be dead by now.
These days, I go to more funerals than weddings. When the phone rings, I think: Uh oh, who now?
I've stayed lean, though. Because I neither dress nor act my age, from a distance I tend to read as a lot younger than I actually am. From a distance, I still see them looking.
Hey: if life is an Olympic event, I'm happy taking silver.
The most important thing in life is to be beautiful, said the poet Simonides who, being homely himself, knew well whereof he spoke. Next most important, he added, is good health.
2500 years later, we still remember his words.
Pretty heroic, if you ask me.
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