The Plutocrat

In my wanderings I once saw upon an island a man-headed, iron-hoofed

monster who ate of the earth and drank of the sea incessantly. And for a

long while I watched him. Then I approached him and said, “Have you

never enough; is your hunger never satisfied and your thirst never

quenched?”

And he answered saying, “Yes, I am satisfied, nay, I am weary of eating

and drinking; but I am afraid that tomorrow there will be no more earth

to eat and no more sea to drink.”