Soon be Beltaine

Entry posted by 5co77ie April 24, 2007

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to find someway to explain what i mean about ancestors when the answer appeared in the book i was reading a while ago. A Hat Full Of Sky by Terry Pratchett here is what Tiffany says to the Hiver (Arthur) on page 304.

"Here is a story to believe." she [Tiffany] said. "Once we were blobs in the sea, and then lizards and rats and then monkeys, and hundreds of things in between.This hand was once a fin, this hand once had claws! In my human mouth i have the pointy teeth of a wolf and the chisel teeth of a rabbit and the grinding teeth of a cow! Our blood is a salty as the sea we used to live i! When we are frightened the hairs on our skins stands up, just like it did when we had fur. We are history! Everything we've ever been on the way to being us we still are."

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"I'm made up of the memories of my parents and grandparents, all my ancestors. They're in the way I look, the colour of my hair. And I'm made up of everyone I've ever met who's changed the way i think."

And that's pretty much nail on head. Our responses are either monkey, lizard, rat, fish, or a host of other old echoes. It's knowing which impulse rules your head in conflict or need at any moment which gives us the ability to control it and remain human.