Dulce et decorum

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The thought occurred to me today that the saying, "Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise," might be inaccurate. It seems to me that being healthy, wealthy and wise would allow a man to go to bed early and give him a reason to get out of bed at all. But for the sick, the poor, and the stupid, the key is to stay up late and sleep until it feels better. The key to life is to avoid living it, to avoid being hurt while awake.

Small wonder that a vast sum of folks wish to die in their sleep.

I mean, we're not puppets, and I guess that's the idea. Puppets never worry about things like people do. Silly Pinnochio--why on earth would he desire to be like his maker? The maker's Maker made whales for people who tried to do that, and once kicked out heaven's best angel and earth's finest creation for being little Pinnochios to the Great Big Japetto.

But that's the funny thing, isn't it? That this Creator did something no other gods bothered to do before, and that was to worry about what he was doing and halt his vengeance.

Smart God. Good God.

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Or something like that.

The flip side is that people--and Lucifer--bothered to do something that had never been done by a creation before, and that was to rebel and halt their obedience.

Dumb dogs. Bad dogs.

Hm.