I was recently made aware of this article about the Kentucky Derby from 1955 that only William Faulkner could have written. also, one of the greatest horse related quotes ever Once the horse moved mans physical body and his household goods and his articles of commerce from one place to another. Nowadays all it moves is a part or the whole of his bank account, either through betting on it or trying to keep owning and feeding it. So, in a way, unlike the other animals which he has domesticated—cows and sheep and hogs and chickens and dogs (I dont include cats; man has never tamed cats)—the horse is economically obsolete. Yet it still endures and probably will continue to as long as man himself does, long after the cows and sheep and hogs and chickens, and the dogs which control and protect them, are extinct. Because the other beasts and their guardians merely supply man with food, and someday science will feed him by means of synthetic gases and so eliminate the economic need which they fill. While what the horse supplies to man is something deep and profound in his emotional nature and need. It will endure and survive until mans own nature changes. Because you can almost count on your thumbs the types and classes of human beings in whose lives and memories and experience and glandular discharge the horse has no place. These will be the ones who dont like to bet on anything which involves the element of chance or skill or the unforeseen. They will be the ones who dont like to watch something in motion, either big or going fast, no matter what it is. They will be the ones who dont like to watch something alive and bigger and stronger than man, under the control of puny mans will, doing something which man himself is too weak or too inferior in sight or hearing or speed to do.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 15:22:17 +0000
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