The Dragon, a parable

[emo_snal]

   Once upon a time, there was a bloodthirsty reptile. He may have been a man once, but he rose to the top in a den of vipers by being the most cold blooded of them all. He swam through the darkness of a world where you never show weakness. Empathy was weakness, and the strong eat the weak, and the cunning backstab the trusting. The only thing

Comments

[bernadettee]

Dragon are. Part. Of London

[chocolate_frapp]

I think you're unnecessarily flattering Putin by comparing him to a dragon.

[furzicle]

Might be interesting to rewrite this from that point of view. See my comment about Gila Monsters.

[engarian]

Thinly veiled, and quite a delightful way to look at the war.

- Erulisse (one L)

[roina_arwen]

An interesting way of looking at things.

[furzicle]

Regard the Gila monster, a thick lizard that lives in the Mojave desert. It, itself is not venomous. But the remnants of those it has killed remain in its mouth long enough to putrefy. The next victim he decides to bite, innocent or not, gets the poison within its mouth and soon expires from that.