At the hole where he went inRed-Eye called to Wrinkle-Skin.
Hear what little Red-Eye saith:
‘Nag, come up and dance with death!’
Eye to eye and head to head,
(Keep the measure, Nag.)
This shall end when one is dead;
(At thy pleasure, Nag.)
Turn for turn and twist for twist—
(Run and hide thee, Nag.)
Hah! The hooded Death has missed
(Woe betide thee, Nag!)
- Rudyard Kipling
This is the introductory poem to Kipling's tale Rikki Tikki Tavi. Red-eye, the mongoose, you may already recognise from the FrontPage. Nag is his foe, the great hooded cobra, who dwells in secret shadow and strikes from them.
I first discussed Openness as a meme here. Looking back after eighteen months, I find some things I'd forgotten about, and some things have been picked up independently by others
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