The Ant's A Centaur...
"The ant’s a centaur in his dragon world. Pull down thy vanity, it is not man Made courage, or made order, or made grace, Pull down thy vanity, I say pull down. Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry, Pull down thy vanity," Ezra Pound With such impunity I crush the little ant rushing across the page of the book, as though it were but a couple of grains of rye. I, who pride myself in my non-violent, vegetarian, conscientious living, have no qualms whatsoever in squashing this teenie meeni formic creature scurrying across the page exultant in its existence. Mumsy says, no problem darling, may be you were just instrumental in helping it reach its next stage of evolution...may be it would be now reborn as a Brahmin ant . Her words sound like ambrosia to my guilt-ridden conscience. Hmm ...frowns the Propounder of the Geeta. According to him my Karma is going to haunt me and I would b