From: pseudo@nic.gac.edu Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn Subject: Saph: Another answer to Drax's riddle. Message-ID: <1992May21.214149.1497@gacvx2.gac.edu> Date: 22 May 92 03:41:47 GMT Saph ponders a minute and looks pleased that although most have gotten the first riddle correct easily, the second is giving more of a chalange. Then suddenly an idea strikes her and she smiles assuradly, "Dear Drax, could the answer perhaps be sand? I have seen eyepieces of glass which is sand that enabled on to see, and sand in one's eyes blinds. Also, sand can erode mountains given time, and it makes hills called dunes. Finally, does not almost every ocean have a sandy bottom that will eventually fill in and dry it up?" She winks at Drax. "Is that what you saught friend Drax?" "Dear, Drax, you seem to come off pretty swift, tell me, why do you spend your life in service of a box. It seems to cage you and own you, not vice versa. Many people indeed are owned by their possessions or are serving in a box; yet do not know it. Perhaps you have an advantage over them in that you know what you serve, or even that you serve, but I put it to you: Are you free or do you meerly long for freedom? Are you happy or are you questing for happiness? What is Drax like without his box to keep him warm at night, without his service to it to make him more than the average man? What is there to Drax that is not to the box; that makes him shed his tears for it? What can Drax give that the box may not? For although, Drax, you seem the giving type, the type that lives to help others, I fear this chest you bear will destroy you that you will only see gifts from it as worth while and not those more precious gifts which only Drax can give." She pauses, "Perhaps, I or we," she looks around, "can give something to friend Drax here. Something of the nature of these wonderous gifts he has been giving out. What say you my friends?" Saphire Silkson Revlis at large "Geology is a rocky subject for me."