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Jolie perdrix carolling in a pear tree
Like one Duke of Buckingham once said:
"Read Homer once, and you can read no more;
For all books else appear so mean, so poor,
Verse will seem prose: but still persist to read,
And Homer will be all the books you need."
Indeed, these lines are exceptionally relevant
for our current world of reckless politicking,
if we remind ourselves of what Homer had said:
"What from our master’s interest thus we draw,
Is but a licensed theft that ’scapes the law!"
However, I must disagree with his wishful
contention that some Olympians might still
steer humanity away from imminent downfall:
"Loth as thou art to punish lawless lust,
Not all the gods are partial and unjust."
Nay... We should not delude ourselves that there
would come a day when rogue pretenders
might come to their senses and earnestly say
"Why leave we not the fatal Trojan shore,
And measure back the seas we cross’d before?"
I am inclined to believe that a return to a
pre-Abrahamic world where no prophets had
discovered how to perform miracles yet is the
only way out for humans to start all over again.
The bird-brained partridge was once a dinosaur!
Given the chance, it would gladly have returned
to its former self, instead of being roasted and
served as 'jolie perdrix' on the Royal menu!
What humanity as well as the entire globe is currently
undergoing, in the hands of autocrats, oppressors and
totalitarians manipulated by obscenely hideous Shylocks,
there is hardly any justification to hope for a happy 2026.
Can't humanity at least try to shed its heavenly
legacy of nearly four millennia of beatified villainy
in order to recreate a fair-minded rule book of
human civilisation on an unstained clean slate?
However unrealisable it might seem, this happens
to be my sole hope for MMXXVI. I am convinced that
there will not be any time for hoodwinked partriges to
perch on pear trees and carol in the New Year 2026.
PS: Quotations from The Iliad translated by Alexander Pope
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