Sunday, July 6, 2014

Upon my word, I have grown into the same thing again!

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The Bee-Man of Orn (1887), by Frank R. Stockton was a favorite story of mine when I was a kid. We had the version illustrated by Maurice Sendak.

The gist of the story is, a young sorcerer determines that if a slovenly bee-keeper he happens to meet were given a chance to live his life again, the man would grow up into something else (better). 
So the sorcerer turns the Bee-man back into a baby.

But when the sorcerer returns years later...
 "Upon my word!" exclaimed the Sorcerer, "He has grown into the same thing again!"

5 comments:

Zhoen said...

Good, means you've been living an authentic life all along.

Fresca said...

That's a nice thought... It feels true, too---I feel that I have always been me.

deanna said...

You (in the pictures and in general) make me think of the word "ebullient", which I read and hear at church a lot (14th century chants and so on). I just looked it up, and, although I didn't have the definition exactly right, I still think it fits you in your full, creative spaces.

Ebullient: 1) cheerful and full of energy. "she sounded ebullient and happy" - synonyms: exuberant buoyant, cheerful, joyful, lighthearted, elated;
2) archaic literary - (of liquid or matter) boiling or agitated as if boiling. "misted and ebullient seas"

Fresca said...

Oh, I like that word you chose for me, Deanna!
It especially matches the childhood me, but I think I still have that bubbly cheerfulness at hand.

Krista said...

Exactly what they said. I adore this post!