stevens@uiucdcs.UUCP (10/04/84)
--Rick Lyndon Stevens
"Free All Dependent Variables"
stevens%uiuc.csnet-relay.arpa
We think, sometimes, ther's not a dragon left.
Not one brave knight, not a single princess
gliding through secret forests, enchanting deer and
butterflies with her smile.
We think sometimes that ours is an age past frontiers,
past adventures. Destiny, it's way over the horizon;
glowing shadows galloped past long ago, and gone.
What a pleasure to be wrong. Princesses, knights, enchantments
and dragons, mystery and adventure ... not only are they
here-and-now, they're all that ever lived on earth!
Our century, they've changed clothes, of course. Dragons wear
government-costumes, today, and failure-suits and
disaster outfits. Society's demons screech, whirl down on us
should we lift our eyes from the ground, dare we turn right at
corners we've been told to turn left. So crafty have appearances
become that princesses and knights can be hidden from each other,
can be hidden from themselves.
Yet masters of reality still meet us in dreams to tell us that
we've never lost the shield we need against dragons, that blue-
fire voltage arcs through us now to change our world as we wish.
Intuition whispers true: We're not dust, we're magic!
- Richard Bach