Harald Fairhair’s beaver tail dread, and the selves scurrying off to Iceland, waiting for their chance to conquer “my” kingdom convey two points so humorously:

Determination is a powerful force, but do please apply it wisely. Piss off the crew on your ship, and you will regret it bitterly. If not now, eventually. They will thoroughly ransack your life.

I was re-reading Galina Krasskova’s take on the soul parts when I checked in for your previous post. Synchronicity!

When I think back to my youth, and my conviction that my current personality was/is an independent, unchanging sort of reality, I feel positively claustrophobic.

Thanks for the thoughtful essays. I’m still chortling about that mutinous crew biding their time in Iceland…

Valerie