The Bitter Rose

The bitter rose is found only at the summit of the highest peaks whoever eats of it finds that whenever he is about to tell a lie allowed or to himself off his tongue begins to burn he can still tell falsehoods. No one has ever been able to catch it for the tiniest tremor of fear anywhere close by alerts it and it disappears into the rock. The hollow men are these empty men that would be blown away by the wind and would be destroyed by light if they were to ever exit the cave but equally we can draw the platonic allegory of the cave into the ggfian conception of sleep and seek out in death.