To Whom It Pertains
`To create, to God alone pertains.' Sir John Davies, Immortal Soul.
`Stop creating!' is said to a tiresome child who's half-hysterical with tiredness from survival tactics, waiting for the boredom of childhood to end.
Or said to the girl who insists there must be a meaning to actions and words the other wants to ignore and dismiss. She keeps worrying away at it.
So the child makes a drama involving whoever, maybe the whole family at a party or a public place like a restaurant or a railway station.
And the girl leaves her hearer so weary with the story that finally he agrees, `Yes, yes, how right you are. That's exactly it.' She contradicts herself and starts again.
Making something from nothing — a definition of creation generally alarming except to the one (having fun) to whom it pertains.
Ruth Fainlight
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