( Spoken just so: calmly, enticingly, shrewdly. He knows the frustration that absolute certainty invites in those who still weigh and decide their footing. How the example of definitive contentment does nothing more than spurn and irritate them. Children and disciples forever despise a firm hand.
No footsteps, muted underfoot. The red that shrouds his limbs absorbs sound, sloshes weeds and grass under a firm boot. He does not enclose her, nor removes his helmet — this the time and this the place, for example. The flickered arc of his arms waves calm more than acceptance. Anger breathes and lives and sprawls the same in men as in animals, like the spread of a watered stain. )
Enough. ( Settle, as if she were a storm-maddened horse, rebellious thunder rushing to prickle her ears. ) What troubles you? Think. Your health is secure. Needs met. You are at advantage.
( Perhaps no chipped ceramic tiles sit above them, no silks welcome their bodies, no salted waters and oils whisper their skins fresh — but they are not weakened. What is there to complain of? )
no subject
( Spoken just so: calmly, enticingly, shrewdly. He knows the frustration that absolute certainty invites in those who still weigh and decide their footing. How the example of definitive contentment does nothing more than spurn and irritate them. Children and disciples forever despise a firm hand.
No footsteps, muted underfoot. The red that shrouds his limbs absorbs sound, sloshes weeds and grass under a firm boot. He does not enclose her, nor removes his helmet — this the time and this the place, for example. The flickered arc of his arms waves calm more than acceptance. Anger breathes and lives and sprawls the same in men as in animals, like the spread of a watered stain. )
Enough. ( Settle, as if she were a storm-maddened horse, rebellious thunder rushing to prickle her ears. ) What troubles you? Think. Your health is secure. Needs met. You are at advantage.
( Perhaps no chipped ceramic tiles sit above them, no silks welcome their bodies, no salted waters and oils whisper their skins fresh — but they are not weakened. What is there to complain of? )
Ease.