Submission

[tinhuviel]

A thought courtesy of Frank Herbert from the book 'Dune':

She talks of hints, Paul thought. She doesn't really know
anything. And he said: "Hint then."
"And be damned to me?" She smiled wryly, a crisscross of
wrinkles in the old face. "Very well: 'That which submits rules.' "
He felt astonishment: she was talking about such elementary
things as tension within meaning. Did she think his mother had
taught him nothing at all?
"That's a hint?" he asked.
"We're not here to bandy words or quibble over their mean-
ing," the old woman said. "The willow submits to the wind and
prospers until one day it is many willows -- a wall against the
wind. This is the willow's purpose."