Holding Back the Tide - A Little Drabble Do Ya! - August 28th

[jantojones.livejournal.com]

“Illya, do you ever feel that trying to stop Thrush is like King Canute trying to hold back the tide?”

“Canute wasn’t trying to hold back the tide. He was proving to his courtiers that he held no power over the elements. He was saying that, next to God, the power of kings is worthless. The story's apocryphal anyway.”

“Do you have to keep doing that, Tovarisch?”

“What?”

“Debunking and correcting everything.”

“Only when you’re in the wrong. In answer to your original question, I think we have a lot more success against Thrush, than Canute did with the tide.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Canute_and_the_tide

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Comments

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

Deep... very deep ... like the tide ;)

[jantojones.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much indeed :-D