Heart--Shaped Cross
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posted February 04, 2005 01:40 PM
  
((The following is excerpted from an essay, "The First Step", by Leo Tolstoy
(Virgo Sun Cunjunct Moon in the 10th)))
I have long wished to write a fairy tale of this kind:
A woman, wishing to revenge herself on one who has injured her, carries off her enemies child, and going to a sorcerer asks him to teach her how she can most cruelly wreak her vengeance on the stolen infant, the only child of her enemy. The sorcerer bids her carry the child to a place he indicates, and assures her that a most terrible vengeance will result. The wicked woman follows his advise; but, keeping an eye upon the child, is astonished to see that it is found and adopted by a wealthy, childless man. She goes to the sorcerer and reproaches him, but he bids her wait. The child grows up in luxury and effeminacy. The woman is perplexed, but again the sorcerer bids her wait. And at length the time comes when the wicked woman is not only satisfied but has even to pity her victim. He grows up in the effeminacy and dissoluteness of wealth, and owing to his good nature is ruined. Then begins a sequence of physical sufferings, poverty, and humiliation, to which he is especially sensitive and against which he knows not how to contend. Aspirations of a moral life -- and the weakness of his effeminate body accustomed to luxury and idleness; vain struggles; lower and still lower decline; drunkenness to drown thought, then crime and insanity or suicide. IP: Logged |
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posted February 07, 2005 03:27 PM