Updated: Jul. 15/03

PRESENTING
A Repertory of Spirited Writings and Esteemed Literary Sources.



3)











SubmitFree: Submit to 25+ Search Engines for free !!!!

Sponsored By:

A&E/The History Channel Affiliate Program

Visit A&E Network's
Online Store

Save the Children Esponsorship

Help change the world:
Sponsor a child

You don't have to be rich, or smart, or good-looking - It's already yours. Tap into it. More than a place, a person, an idea, Passion is a State of Mind.

"Miguel de Cervantes: ...When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Too much sanity may be madness! To surrender dreams---this may be madness; to seek treasure where there is only trash! And maddest of all---to see life as it is and not as it should be!"

- Man of La Mancha (1972).
Image: Picasso's Don Quixote

Get Good Stuff!
This site is sponsor supported - please consider shopping with our sponsors.

This commedy of manners is a pure pleasure.


The unsurpassed modern masterpiece of romantic suspense.

Masterwork of historical fiction; monumental scope. A delicious read.

Plays exploring human passion. Outstanding 2-vol. series to own, to treasure.

James Goldman’s Oscar winning screenplay, Broadway play-One of the most revered...

One of the best Plays ever written! Act 1: Fun and Games...


ARTICLE CATEGORY: Civil War Trails/Humor, Wit and Satire

Illinois Red: A Parable - by Chuck Lazar
helga
A Southern perspective.

Chuck Lazar, Texan, gifted writer, with sense of humor as well as horse sense, spins his version of a familiar folk tale of the civil war era:
How things looked from the Barnyard when Illinois Red Rooster arose and crowed.


The new Head Rooster, named Illinois Red, self-appointed ruler over the henhouse ( Almost none of the hens voted for this weird rooster), had made some new friends, called foxes. The foxes 'helped' him win the henhouse election. The new rooster wanted to extract his roosterly tribute from the henhouse pretties.

Since some of the hens and young roosters didn't want nuthin' to do with the new Head rooster, or his longtoothed friends, they left the henhouse and went into the barnyard, taking their eggs and chicks with them. The rooster objected, stating that it was his right to not only demand his tribute in the henhouse, but in the barnyard also, since the henhouse and barnyard were perpetual and had metaphysically existed before the actual henhouse was built.

Henhouse and Barnyard, One and Inseparable, was his stand.




The hens, seeing the absurdity of this statement, decided to stay in a corner of the barnyard, happily away from the cocky Illinois Red Rooster. However, they noticed a fox in the barnyard, where obviously he should not be, being a threat to hens and chicks alike. A scrap developed, with the surprised fox being driven ignomineously back into the henhouse by fierce mother hens. Illinois Red, seeing his plan coming to fruition, unleashed his remaining foxes upon the hens, chicks, and eggs in the barnyard.

Feathers and runny eggyolks folks! The battle was fierce for a while, but to save the remainder of the chicks and eggs, the hens submitted, and reentered the henhouse, with the foxes leering at the remaining hens. Illinois Red, suppressing his cock-iness, appeared merciful, implying he could have had all the hens, chicks, and eggs devoured by his fox friends, and yet, the Henhouse and Barnyard were once again, One and Perpetual!

This scared some of the smarter of the loyal hens who had stayed in the henhouse, especially when the foxes and Illinois Red began eyeing them, each out of different longings.

But who dared ask....When will the foxes demand their pay and when will the Rooster demand his due?

.....when the chickens come home to roost?






~ Chuck Lazar ~

Copyright 2003


gkklllet this gear!