He’s as blind as he can be, just sees what he wants to see...
John Lennon
‘Tis the times’ plague, when madmen lead the blind...
William Shakespeare
...this old king had three daughters....two of them...one with a name like a venereal disease, the other a dead president...filled his eager ears with empty flattery...stroked his vanity with ridiculous lies...fed his ego with pretty crap...which, as it turned out, was exactly what he wanted to hear...so he split his kingdom between them...
...the other daughter...named, apparently, after a character on Buffy the Vampire Slayer...told him the truth...unvarnished...a bit harsh, perhaps...and got nothing...was banished...disowned...
...and they don’t call this stuff tragedy for nothin’....suffice to say the story turns out very VERY badly for everybody involved...particularly that foolish old king...
...but isn’t he a bit like you and me?
John Lennon
‘Tis the times’ plague, when madmen lead the blind...
William Shakespeare
...this old king had three daughters....two of them...one with a name like a venereal disease, the other a dead president...filled his eager ears with empty flattery...stroked his vanity with ridiculous lies...fed his ego with pretty crap...which, as it turned out, was exactly what he wanted to hear...so he split his kingdom between them...
...the other daughter...named, apparently, after a character on Buffy the Vampire Slayer...told him the truth...unvarnished...a bit harsh, perhaps...and got nothing...was banished...disowned...
...and they don’t call this stuff tragedy for nothin’....suffice to say the story turns out very VERY badly for everybody involved...particularly that foolish old king...
...but isn’t he a bit like you and me?
8 comments:
Fanciful!
That is the problems with kings and progeny, everyone waits for the end to see how the story turns out.
Better a pauper when it comes to children and best to simply break even at the end of the story.
Yes, I guess we are like the old King. Hummm... you've given me something to think about!
Good point.
Moral of story - don't have kids? Or that Shakespeare writes the best lines for fools?
Seems like someone should've come out ahead here, especially the truth-teller, but then it wouldn't have been so tragic, I guess.
Wow. I've been on a Beatles kick lately and have been listening to them repeatedly on Youtube... specifically the Rubber Soul album, which is my favorite by them.
So true!
Anyway, i'm your new follower. will you follow mine?
First of all, I hate obligatory-anything! But since it's semi... I'm thinking about it.
It might be sprouting a post in my mind about listening to "harsh" and "unvarnished" truth rather than those pretty pink lies that have pretty much sucked me dry! I actually am nourished by truth. It's better to know.
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