8-Of Vanity, Of Presumption,

SIRRJAX MAXIM sirrjaxmaxim at hotmail.com
Wed Dec 22 13:21:37 CST 1999


The question is, said Humpty Dumpty, which is to be master - that's all.

How does the puppeteer make himself the master of the puppets?

He forestalls all criticisms by always being correct.

He will justify his position with allegations.

With accusations, Sir.

He must be right in the most insignificant and trifling details--to be 
always right.

To be proven wrong in any minute part opens up the danger, the unbearable 
danger of being wrong in everything, of being wrong altogether.

He defends his paranoid anti-paranoia by naming himself a victim.

The puppets are not of his making, not his, but his alone.

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