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What Is A Dragon?

September 6th, 2002 Posted in previous incarnations of just kristin
  • An errant star, tired with his soli­tary, watch­ful exis­tance, come down to this place to soak in both the joys and the sor­rows of a life among those who had watched him with as much won­der as he had viewed them with confusion.
  • A falling leaf that just hap­pened to catch the eye of a young faerie, made melan­choly by autumn and a lost love, who became so taken with the frag­ile beauty of the thing that he cast a spell upon it so that its golden flight could continue.
  • A beast (no more evil than fire or win­ter or death or sex or blood) that lives in the deep, dark, warm, moist womb of the earth, reap­ing the ben­e­fits of each yearly sac­ri­fice of vir­gins from scared and igno­rant vil­lagers, and rev­el­ling in t
    he knowl­edge that he owns not only the hearts of the maid­ens with whom he now dwells, but the hearts of those still in the towns with their men who will dream o
    f him and his fangs and his warm, leath­ery wings until they wither and die.

This could get long.… :)

12 Responses to “What Is A Dragon?”

  1. Mindi says:
    9/7/2002 at 8:57 am

    Metaphor … what a won­der­ful tool for let­ting us into the cob­web of your mind … metaphor­i­cally speak­ing of course :)

  2. rainbow says:
    9/7/2002 at 6:52 am

    More!More!

  3. wink says:
    9/9/2002 at 10:18 am

    How about:

  4. A prod­uct of evo­lu­tion two mil­lion years from now whose fire-breathing, fly­ing form is per­fectly suited to an envi­ron­ment increas­ingly hos­tile to mam­mals of all sorts.
  5. The ser­pent before the Curse, legged and clever, seduc­tive and cun­ning, so per­sua­sive that his mere sug­ges­tion could charm an inno­cent into par­tak­ing of That-Which-Must-Not-Be-Eaten. The Dragon is the root of human drama, the fount of dis­sent and strife.
  6. A force of sheer imag­i­na­tion. A proto-meme that tran­scends cul­ture so that all may mea­sure their virtues againt its standard.
  7. The res­ur­rected form of a nymph alseep atop an alli­ga­tor con­sumed in the con­fla­gra­tion of a dying pheonix.
  • rainbow says:
    9/9/2002 at 11:08 am

    wink, you’re good! :)

  • wink says:
    9/9/2002 at 11:41 am

    thanks rain­bow. ;)

  • theo says:
    9/10/2002 at 10:13 am

    The dragon is the form taken by the pri­mor­dial cos­mic energy guard­ing the pre­cious jewel of enlight­en­ment. One must endure the fangs and claws of the dragon and with­stand the sacred fire if its breath to be trans­formed by the jewel. The dragon sym­bol­izes pro­tec­tion for those seek­ers of the light who are will­ing to brave the dark­ness of the unknown. A fiendly dude.

  • eric says:
    9/10/2002 at 2:59 am

    a pub­lic ser­vice announce­ment: just spoke to Theo … he mean “friendly,” not “fiendly.” though i sus­pect the lat­ter could work, too. :)

    this just in: this is a cool post and com­ment thread. :)

    we now return you to you reg­u­larly sched­uled comments.

  • eric says:
    9/10/2002 at 3:16 am

    oh, and … Eric meant “meant.” ahem.

    mmm. verb con­ju­ga­tion good. mmm.

  • Moonpuddle says:
    9/10/2002 at 11:20 am

    Wink! Nice! :) theo, I hope to meet him some day. Most likely not in this life­time, though. :P

  • wink says:
    9/11/2002 at 12:26 pm

    A few more ;)

  • A dragon is a poor lucky soul who has fallen into the Rift of Real­iza­tion and thus been trans­formed both into that which she most fears and that which she most hopes for. She is now a sin­gle man­i­fes­ta­tion of all that is won­der­ful and awe­some, ter­ri­ble and loathsome–all that is truly great.
  • A dragon is a tiny thing, a crit­ter of no con­se­quence. He is the pet of Maxwell’s demon, flut­ter­ing about in the land of Ther­mo­dy­nam­ics to enter­tain his mas­ter when the Door doesn’t need open­ing and closing.
  • A dragon is a black­berry bush irra­di­ated by cos­mic rays trans­mor­ph­ing it into a super-being. Its ele­gant arch­ing curves belie its bristling ter­ri­to­ri­al­ity. It guards its sweet trea­sure aggres­sively and patiently. It is unde­feat­able and insatieable.
  • Dragon is an element–brother to earth, fire, air, and water. It is the ele­ment that gives life to all that lives. As a cloud is made of air and water, and lava is made of fire and earth, so an orange is made of water, earth and dragon.
  • wink says:
    9/11/2002 at 9:43 am

    A dragon is a hero of old, a near demi-god, who was cursed to become a snake after refus­ing the advances of a god­dess. His inher­ent great­ness pre­vented the curse from turn­ing him into a mere snake, and instead he became a majes­tic wyrm, a near immor­tal drake of power and beauty.

  • wink says:
    9/13/2002 at 1:07 am

    A dragon is an id which has escaped the repres­sive regime of the super-ego and was given mate­r­ial form by a quirk of quan­tum mechanics.

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