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Slash & Burn
Classic Gin
Wednesday, 2005-10-26 | Classic Gin
I've never had the skill of reading dreams and I only do fairly well discerning the omens.
These deficits don't generally cause problems for me; the immortal gods don't generally concern themselves too much with my comings and goings. At least they don't concern themselves as much with me as they did with say, Theseus or Chalcas. Most of the time, it doesn't make much of a difference to me or my close ones that I read the dreams incorrectly or that I draw the proper conclusions when we are given omens to discern.
Recently I was injured twice upon the right thumb. The first injury was a cut. I applied too much force to a surface and took a small divet out of my thumb with the arm of a scissors. The second injury was a burn. I burned my thumb when I accidentally touched a coil on my electric range that I mistakenly took to be cool.
I'm not so arrogant to assume that any strange coincidence that I observe is an omen from the gods. But I was driving home from work tonight, ruminating on my recent injuries, and I started to realize that these injuries might just be an omen of some kind.
'A burn is preferable to a cut', I thought to myself, 'because though a burn has a greater potential to cause permanent disfigurement and less attractive scarring, a cut is slower to heal and hurts much more'. The next thing that occurred to me was these injuries that I had sustained--two injuries in almost exactly the same location on my body by two totally unrelated weapons, if it's not totally inappropriate to call a scissors and a stove weapons--could potentially have been intended as portents. They're not particularly painful injuries and they're barely noticeable. Yet they occurred 'right on top of one another' spatially and temporally. To look at my thumb now, it looks to have sustained a single wound.
So I've got--perhaps 'been given' would be more appropriate--this composite wound that seems to say so much about wounding and the nature of wounds; to have the two so close to one another has caused me to think long, hard and frequently on the difference between wounds that cut and wounds that burn. It seems that the immortal gods might have been trying to drop a hint. Had I received two wounds further apart in space and time, I might not have even thought about what they might signify at all. But as it stands, I've got this composite wound.
And I just don't know what to make of it. I find myself staring at my thumb and trying to remember what someone might have said or maybe something I read in a book about how to read the omens. I find myself staring and thinking hard and I just can't come up with anything.
Those of you 'within the sound of my voice' should consider this a request for succor. If you have the skill or you know someone who does have the skill of discerning the omens, I would appreciate a little help here. I'd like to know what the gods meant to tell me before it's too late to make any profitable use of that knowledge.
Although, if I know anything about the nature of the omens, I know that there is a yawning chasm that stretches for miles between reading the omens correctly and making efficacious use of their correct interpretation.
