INTERLUDE 2




The Lord looked askance at the Fool, who was busy making faces behind the Lady's back.

"So, which of your Aspects have you enjoyed the most?" he said.

The Fool looked up, wiggling his ears.

"Stop that!" grinned the Lord, "I'd really like to know!"

"Well.....I suppose that it would be a toss-up between Dionysus, Tyl Eulenspiegel, and Krishna, I guess. Tyl had a whopping good time, Dionysus got to be pretty much drunk, mostly, and Krishna had those sweet little milk-maids......THAT was a good time! But Coyote gets to do most everything. I guess I like Him the best."

The Lord sat back against a tree, folded His hands, and smiled.

"Yeah, ol' Coyote gets to do everything all right...except catch the Roadrunner," he said.

"Well," said the Fool, with a lopsided grin, "I guess I'm the only One of Us that perpetually chases Myself!"

The Lady turned, and, Aspecting the Nymph, dropped a large grasshopper down the Fool's back. She giggled, and ran off over the fields of Summerland.

The Lord laughed, pounding His fists on the ground as the Fool jumped and twisted, trying to reach the insect.

Between whoops of laughter, He said, "Did you ever figure out what 'Updoc' was?"

"Shaddup!" said the Fool.

Thus it was, and so it is, and evermore shall be so!


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