Everything
Originally published 30 May 2001

I suppose I think responsibility is one of life's great overrated accomplishments. Really, who wants to be in charge? It always means a lot of boring busywork, and it invariably means bad things happen and you get blamed for them. (Hm, maybe this just means that I personally should never be allowed to be in charge of anything.)

Locke's disappointment, then, is my own. And Llewellyn, who sometimes seems not to be that aware of what's really going on, at times like this demonstrates that he actually knows what everyone else is going to do before they do it. His understanding and confidence allow him to nonchalantly water the bushes in an apron (I'm not sure why an apron) while Locke falls on his own sword. I know that's not exactly the right metaphor, but the right metaphor would probably involve a septic tank, and therefore be really gross.

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