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- POSEIDON
- POSEIDON sat at his desk doing figures. The administra-
- tion of all the waters gave him endless work. He could
- have had assistants, as many as he wanted --and he did
- have very many -- but since he took his job very serious-
- ly, he would in the end go over all the figures and
- calculations himself, and thus his assistants were of
- little help to him. It cannot be said that he enjoyed his
- work; he did it only because it had been assigned to him;
- in fact, he had already filled many petitions for -- as he
- put it more cheerful work, but every time the offer of
- something different for him was made to him it would turn
- out that nothing suited him quite as well as his present
- position. After all, it was impossible to assign him to a
- particular sea; aside from the fact that even then the
- work with figures would not become less but only pettier,
- the great POSEIDON could in any case occupy only an exec-
- utive position. And when a job away from the water was
- offered to him he would get sick at the very prospect, his
- divine breathing would become troubled and his brazen chest
- begin to tremble...In actuality a shift of posts was
- unthinkable for POSEIDON -- he had been appointed God of
- the Sea in the begining, and that he had to remain.
- What irritated him most--- and it was this that was chief-
- ly responsible for his dissatisfaction with his job-- was to
- hear of the conceptions formed about him: how he was always
- riding about through the tides with his trident. When all the
- while he sat here in the depths of the world-ocean, doing
- figures uninterruptedly...Thus he had hardly seen the sea--
- had seen it but fleetingly in the course of hurried ascents
- to Olympus, and he had never actually travelled around it...
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