Ordering with this link is for items being mailed in the USA.
If you are ordering issues to be mailed to the U.K., go to the Down in the Dirt main page for U.K. shipping.
get this writing in the collection book echo Download (color eBook): $4.95 paperback (5.5" x 8.5") w/ b&w interior pages: $18.95
Blue Sapphire
Tom Ball
Blue Sapphire was a girl who described herself as “challenging to men”.
She was always dressed in blue and unusually beautiful. She knew the power she had over men. Typically she would go to bars and flirt amongst the boys. After a while she would say disparaging things about one group or another, saying they threatened her and so on. And so a fight would ensue.
Often it would be a large brawl as she was definitely a girl men would fight over.
Usually Blue Sapphire would stick around and watch the fight. Then she’d run off with the man who fought most valiantly.
She was a bit of a philosopher. And one of her favorite anecdotes that she’d tell was how caribou would often fight for females and their antlers would get stuck inside each other’s antlers so that they would be unable to disengage and so finally the two would starve to death.
She often said that she felt modern love was dispassionate and boring. She considered love to be primarily a savage instinct. Why, said she, should we pretend that we are not wild animals? Being wild, she said, is a state of mind. No matter what your lifestyle, you can still be wild and free in your mind.
And she thought that there were a lot of interesting men out there. But only men who have courage were good men to her. For instance men like Galileo were certainly very intelligent and good, but it was their courage that really made them great.
She found that her charm was so great that she could make many men more courageous, not only with regard to fighting, but also more courageous in their life as a whole. She said every man needs a noble goal to fight for.
So finally when she was about 40 she started writing a column in newspapers in which she would respond to her readers thoughts on courage.
Typically she would lament how men the world over, were so wimpy.
