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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Phoenix

The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from the ashes and rise.
~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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I think the story of the phoenix rising from the ashes is cool.  Overcoming adversity or defeat or bouncing back from the verge of destruction.  Very cool.


I wonder, though, if the legend would have lasted over time if it had been something else instead of a phoenix.  A warthog.  Or a leech.  Or a cockroach.  I mean cockroaches can survive almost everything, but I don't think we as a society hold them in the same kind of esteem as a phoenix.

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