{"id":2570,"date":"2018-04-09T20:06:30","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T00:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=2570"},"modified":"2018-04-11T14:05:42","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T18:05:42","slug":"__trashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/09\/__trashed\/","title":{"rendered":"10APR2018 \u2013 Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometime soon I\u2019ll have to write a book review of Zorba the Greek.\u00a0 I have a love\/hate relationship with the book but every few years I have to reread it.\u00a0 I think I read it not because the book is flawless (far from it) but because Zorba represents the essential component of the male soul, force of will.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis<\/p>\n

Chapter 19<\/p>\n

\u2026\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ‘Let’s get back to our subject! What about Zeus?’<\/p>\n

‘Ah! the poor chap!’ sighed Zorba. ‘I’m the only one to know what he suffered. He<\/p>\n

loved women, of course, but not the way you think, you pen-pushers! Not at all! He<\/p>\n

was sorry for them! He understood what they all suffered and he sacrificed himself for<\/p>\n

their sakes! When, in some god-forsaken country hole, he saw an old maid wasting<\/p>\n

away with desire and regret, or a pretty young wife – or even if she wasn’t at all pretty,<\/p>\n

even if she was a monster – and her husband away and she couldn’t get to sleep, he<\/p>\n

used to cross himself, this good fellow, changed his clothes, take on whatever shape<\/p>\n

the woman had in mind and go to her room.<\/p>\n

‘He never bothered about women who just wanted petting. No! Often enough even he<\/p>\n

was dead-beat: you can understand that. How could anybody satisfy all those she-<\/p>\n

goats? Ah! Zeus! the poor old goat, More than once he couldn’t be bothered, he didn’t<\/p>\n

feel too good. Have you never seen a billy after he’s covered several she-goats? He<\/p>\n

slobbers at the mouth, his eyes are all misty and rheumy, he coughs a bit and can<\/p>\n

hardly stand on his feet. Well, poor old Zeus must have been in that sad state quite<\/p>\n

often.<\/p>\n

‘At dawn he’d come home, saying: “Ah! my God! whenever shall I be able to have a<\/p>\n

good night’s rest? I’m dropping!” And he’d keep wiping the saliva from his mouth.<\/p>\n

‘But suddenly he’d hear a sigh: down there on earth some woman had thrown off her<\/p>\n

bedclothes, gone out onto the balcony, almost stark naked, and was sighing enough<\/p>\n

to turn the sails of a mill! And my old Zeus would be quite over-come.<\/p>\n

“Oh, hell! I’ll have to go down again!” he’d groan.<\/p>\n

“There’s a woman bemoaning \u00a0her lot! I’ll have to go and console her!”<\/p>\n

‘And it went on like that to such an extent that the women emptied him completely. He<\/p>\n

couldn’t move his back, he started vomiting, became paralysed and died. That’s when<\/p>\n

his heir, Christ, arrived. He saw the wretched state the old man was in: “Beware of<\/p>\n

women!” he cried.’<\/p>\n

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