Silver Spool
Have you any memory of the pleasant land? I do not. How can something so chronicled be without one living witness? Mothers will gather their children to relay fantastic lore. Soldiers march with more zeal under the ambition of restoring a mental shadow. It's glory exists only in the mind's eye varying from one beleaguered citizen to the next. There was an age of great renown which recorded flying machines. Potions of no cost dispelled illness with a sip. Diamonds were base to porters and farmers. What if our Shangri-La is a hold out against the sweeping despair? We pay a hefty annual tribute for our continued existence. Chop the wood and carry the water. Grueling labor has made us slight. Nine of our dead can fill one ditch. Roll in the lily fields of amnesia until history agrees to your terms. Give yourself a new name. Put an anthem in the mouth the people. They will sing it over the treachery of their eyes. We rode upon the backs of bangled tigers when the rest of the world was figuring out horses. These are no myths, eagles transported our letters of official government business. Have these majestic creatures no generational recall? It does seem a bit odd how a sparrow will not even approach us in the present day. The scars, empty bellies, and overlords must be the price of our former heights. What evil have we wrought in our zenith of power to be exacted devastation and want? Consult the scrolls, and if we can learn together, our fortunes will be redeemed. Imagination is the only faculty that can resist the sun of high noon. Reason is melted and planning shrivels fast with heat. Even identity bubbles into disfigurement. It is a mistake to hand waive our daydream as contemplative runoff. It is the womb of musings, witty invention, and every exercise of organized thought. How this began and will end is not the domain of observation. Our spy glass is not thick enough. Intellectual rigor is always proceeded by a giggle. If men do not wink during a campfire, they will do it in a laboratory. If they fail to do it there, they will do it in the halls of decision.
