‘Gradually, men moved into cities. And they loved the display of people better than the display of a tree. They liked the glory they got of overpowering one another in war. And above all, they loved the vainglory of their own words, the pomp of argument and the vanity of ideas.
So Pan became old and grey-bearded and goat-legged, and his passion was degraded with the lust of senility. His power to blast and to brighten dwindled. His nymphs became coarse and vulgar.
Till at last, the old Pan died, and was turned into the devil of the Christians’ … -(D.H. Lawrence )
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Powerful and true. How vagabonds,planets became citizens,dwellers.Pan became their Lord,of the scythians.Later (s)ci(y)tizens.All mortals though.But metamorphic also trough death.
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