The Chronicles of Sewell's Point

Fables from The Quick Brown Fox : VIII

( A scene on the sports grounds. Brown Fox has climbed up a tree. )

Lazy Dog : Will you get down from there? I'm not going to hurt you!

Brown Fox : You don't know what you want to do! You just told me in the scopo* to hit you. If I hit you you'll hit me back.

Lazy Dog : I only did that because I'm getting confused inside. I'm starting to think I'm a fox.

Brown Fox : That's your problem!… you don't know how to manage these things … you think by fighting and creating a separation between us we manage the self better.

Lazy Dog : That's why my ancient father wrote the ' Mahabarata ' …. so we'll remain fighting.

Brown Fox : And ' Sewell's Point,' nobody thought it would happen ... but it did and it kept going ... But do we need to be doing that? My calluses have blisters.

Lazy Dog : That's piles. Lean forward on the seat … We need a separation from each other. In fact everytime we get too close for comfort we may need to break-away for a while.

( Brown Fox comes down from the tree. They sit around without speaking ).

Lazy Dog : Is this why animals fight?

Brown Fox : And birds, humans and nature itself … its why we have volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, storms, forest fires and wars …

Lazy Dog : And once it has separated beyond what it can deal with, it seeks to reconcile ?

Brown Fox : ' Making up later… that's what a fight is all about ' … its something a former girlfriend of mine used to say.

Lazy Dog : So what can we do?

Brown Fox : Specialization my friend … you take the front door I take the back … you do the facade, the meaning, purpose, knowledge of what we are … I'll do the sports, the beauty, love and the physical activity. Then we bring it together to a union of purpose with beauty.

Lazy Dog : ( frowns ) Did you do the front before and I was at … ?

Brown Fox : ( quickly ) Water under the bridge old boy … this is the new deal!

* Scopo - Scopophilia