Spendor of Okinawa Bonus: A story from the Ryukyu Kingdom (Sunday: 26no23)
The Dragon and the Centipede One hot summer day a dragon came down from heaven to take a sound afternoon nap in the shade of a tree, since even heaven doesn’t have anything so relaxing as shady trees. Along came a centipede, panting in the blaze of the sun, with his tiny multiply paired legs scurrying to escape the awful heat. “Ah, what luck! This looks like a nice cool hole,” said the centipede, not realizing that the hole before him was the dragon’s ear. So, in the blink of an eye, he was out of the sun and in exactly the kind of cool hole he’d been looking for.. (A centipede: http://gaygamer.net/2007/05/centipedes_millipedes_and_cata_1.html) The dragon suddenly raised his splendid beard in surprise and opened his eyes. “Hey, what the devil is that?” he cried and, feeling something crawling in his ear, began shaking his head around and whacking his ear with his giant foot.. Now it was the centipede in the dragon’s ear that was ...