"I went to the toad that lies under the wall,
I charmed him out, and he came to my call."
Masque of Queens
Ben Jonson 1609
"The respect of our peers matters much more than anonymous applause. It's an anchor for an ego that wants to know it has a home."
-Richard Thieme
-Richard Thieme
I wonder if a toadstool is a good home for the ego? It's as good as any other, I should suppose.
A good place to observe, is the toadstool, I would imagine.
And, if one happened to be an actual toad sitting on a toadstool, I wonder if one would be aware one were actually a toad sitting on an actual toadstool?
And if one were quite aware one were actually sitting on a toadstool and therefore, indeed, a toad, what then?
Now, I should rather be a toad that does not know it is a toad than a creature which has deluded itself into thinking it is not a toad when, in fact, it is a toad.
Speaking of toads...saw a toad in the back garden this day. We exchanged no conversation, but I sense an observation took place between us in the spirit of Lao Tzu.
I think.
There is something to be said about anonymous applause. The toad in the very real garden was quite amused.
No, I don't know what I am talking about either.
Perhaps this is why May is often referred as the Merry, Merry Month.
Folklore on a theme of toads and such like:
Toads and Toadstools: The Natural History, Folklore, and Cultural Oddities of a Strange Association -Adrian Morgan
*Woodcut~Charles Leland text 1891
*Alice~Sir John Tenniel
