10 March, 2012

Apollo: the Stoic.

The Greeks said that Apollo, lord of reason, aesthetic and form, drove the sun in his chariot. But who's to say who pulled whom, and whether he was not just a dog on the leash. Life is a dream sent by the sun--conveyed in excited photons--dreamed by the round rock of earth and thin swirl of sky; and reason happens in the course of life.