“So, The Wind Blows?”

[Erthona]

Could be. Can't recall and didn't feel like a trip to storage...it's the one by Raymond Briggs, But that was just an example of what it could mean. I liked the immediacy of present tense, as to me is has a more apocalyptic feel. Also with the "So" it conveys this was anticipated, and probably not in a god way, so even though it has been dreaded, it is also with a sense of relief. Archetypally, you can be looking at anything from something mildly detesting, but referred to in a tongue n cheek way, or the coming slaughter of thousand of soldiers. It also seems to me to present a nice kind of stoicism/fatalism. A stoicism that has foretold what is now about to occur, but with a still unending will, and we shall persevere to the bloody end! To me, that is an impressive sort of integrity that has ceased to be valued much in a practical way today, although it still might be romanticized. The only consistent perspective this could be told from is that as the personification of the archetype itself. Somewhat as one might have evil be voiced as saying "I am hunger..." Of course this archetype has a much more human face. Initially, sometimes, this conditions looks paradoxical, in the idea that having given up all hope, I find hope, of course it can also come across as Pollyanna-ish if not given an even treatment. In this the last two lines bother me as maybe being a tad to glib.

Dale