http://robin.thornvalley.com/node/141 Comments for "Chapter 7" en http://robin.thornvalley.com/node/141 <p> <p>And then the rains came. </p> </p> <p> <p>To be brutally honest, I was never all that enamored with the life of a<br /> field mouse. Though it's definitely better than &quot;experimental<br /> animal,&quot; it's not the most comfortable--nor the safest--occupation in the<br /> world. Many times I'd cursed the lack of courage which had prevented me from<br /> rescuing my wife and children from those dangers and discomforts. Ironic, I<br /> suppose, that they finally ended up rescuing themselves. All I had ever found<br /> it possible to do was to provide them with the occasional luxury--and then<br /> ignore or evade the inevitable questions as to where it had come from. In every<br /> imaginable way our new life was safer, more comfortable, more fulfilling...but if<br /> our old life did have one redeeming feature, it was this: never once in all<br /> that time had I been obliged to tell my family that I'd been suspended from my<br /> job. </p> </p> <p><a href="http://robin.thornvalley.com/node/141">read more</a></p> http://robin.thornvalley.com/node/141#comment Fri, 12 Nov 2004 14:40:35 -0700 Simon 141 at http://robin.thornvalley.com