The Shape Practice Leaves
The diviners are twisted at the neck-bone so the face looks at the reins. They must walk backward because they spent a life claiming to walk forward through time that was not theirs. Virgil warns that pity here is dead. The craft of reading destinies for hire has become a body that cannot meet what is coming except by going the wrong way into it.
Key Insight
A profession that sells tomorrow will eventually be unable to face today. If your work requires other people to believe you can see around the bend, check whether you can still walk in a straight line without an audience.
“Each wondrously seem'd to be revers'd at the neck-bone, so that the countenance was from the reins averted: and because none might before him look, they were compell'd to advance with backward gait.”Explore full theme analysis
