that if there is any transcendent power at work in this world it is callously indifferent to human concerns, like the President of the Immortals who has his sport with Tess. Yet, burdened by inescapable memory, faced with the inevitable prospect of extinction, we persist in wanting to hold on to that "fair fancy", the pretty lie of the Christmas story--and that is our distinctively human tragedy.[by Thomas Hardy]
The Oxen
from The Guardian: Season's readings: 'The Oxen' by Thomas Hardy
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