...on that quote, I mean. I must admit I never considered how Roman emperors treated tedious outlying provinces, especially before instant global news. Makes me picture dispatches from toes months on the road to brain while situation Out There gets worse and worse: corrupt administrators (tendons?), local uprisings (fungus?), plagues, crop failures. Then The Clippers are sent back, also months on the road, to search for the guilty, punish the innocent, praise the nonparticipants, and finally leave the situation rife for new outbreaks.
Final thought: I love my callouses. I need my callouses to walk barefoot through patches of fallen persimmons thick with thorns and crowns and wasps. Pedicurists should be shot for their scorn of callouses. I've conclused that that province is doing just fine on its own.
--Another Cat, the one you don't know but who can't resist this quote
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branchandroot
Me too
Date: 2005-04-13 07:41 pm (UTC)Final thought: I love my callouses. I need my callouses to walk barefoot through patches of fallen persimmons thick with thorns and crowns and wasps. Pedicurists should be shot for their scorn of callouses. I've conclused that that province is doing just fine on its own.
--Another Cat, the one you don't know but who can't resist this quote