Disposal Of The Apprentices

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An Opera in many acts, and in many ways a Farce.

There once was hid in a tower of learning in the Valley of the Trees, an idiotic Scholar who was able to confuse all around him by talking nonsense. That he was labelled a scholar at all was something of an anomaly as the sum total of his academic prowess comprised of posing his own coded and jargon-filled rhetoric only to then cement its place in The Pompous Circles by also providing the 'answers'. In this, he carved out for himself quite a cosy little run of work which enabled him to direct most of his energy towards his preferred pastime of bullying, devaluing and patronising others, and also allowed him to quaff ale every day unnoticed.

When his power began to wane he became a wicked Scholar. He would then attempt to cast out of his empire all the clever apprentices by using duplicitous spells and a tissue of imperious lies. He feared that these apprentices would challenge his authority and knew that if he were to survive in the manner in which he had become accustomed, he must somehow silence or discredit these dangerous rebels. Being in truth an insane fool he failed to notice that the clever apprentices were stoking the engines that drove his empire and he gathered around him new and stupid apprentices. Now, the stupid apprentices were extremely lazy and uninquisitive and thus were happy to go along with this plan for they were not required to think. The wicked sorcerer said he would do all that stuff for them.

What this foolish miscreant failed to realise is that not everyone can be beaten down into a state of unjustified submission. And so ultimately there came a fearsome backlash that would see him deposed and dismissed into obscurity, and his wretched servants similarly so.

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