The Hart and the Hunter
Sep. 1st, 2004 12:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greybetaI'm very sorry, Senate totally drained me with a long meeting tonight. All I have to offer is an observation from Aesop's fables.
"The Hart and the Hunter"
The Hart was once drinking from a pool and admiring the noble figure he made there. "Ah," said he, "where can you see such noble horns as these, with such antlers! I wish I had legs more worthy to bear such a noble crown; it is a pity they are so slim and slight."
At that moment a Hunter approached and sent an arrow whistling after him. Away bounded the Hart, and soon, by the aid of his nimble legs, was nearly out of sight of the Hunter; but not noticing where he was going, he passed under some trees with branches growing low down in which his antlers were caught, so that the Hunter had time to come up. "Alas! alas!" cried the Hart:
"We often despise what is most useful to us."
In Senate, I despise parliamentary procedure. It's horribly annoying and formal. Oh, my fellow senators will rue the day that they made me Parliamentarian. But, it's terribly useful because it allows people of varying opinions to cooperate in an orderly manner.
That's only if you can call what we do in Senate orderly.
"The Hart and the Hunter"
The Hart was once drinking from a pool and admiring the noble figure he made there. "Ah," said he, "where can you see such noble horns as these, with such antlers! I wish I had legs more worthy to bear such a noble crown; it is a pity they are so slim and slight."
At that moment a Hunter approached and sent an arrow whistling after him. Away bounded the Hart, and soon, by the aid of his nimble legs, was nearly out of sight of the Hunter; but not noticing where he was going, he passed under some trees with branches growing low down in which his antlers were caught, so that the Hunter had time to come up. "Alas! alas!" cried the Hart:
"We often despise what is most useful to us."
In Senate, I despise parliamentary procedure. It's horribly annoying and formal. Oh, my fellow senators will rue the day that they made me Parliamentarian. But, it's terribly useful because it allows people of varying opinions to cooperate in an orderly manner.
That's only if you can call what we do in Senate orderly.
