Kind of a Drag

Posted on January 10, 2025 by JE

Here’s the decoration for my office-door schedule this semester. In some ways I’m one of the volentes, in most ways I’m one of the nolentes, but am feeling the motion either way.

The image is a cartoon of a young woman wearing a shirt with a star on it, drawing behind her a red wagon, in which a young man is sitting and screaming, with delight or terror. Both are moving fast enough that their hair is being blown back. The accompanying text is a quote from Seneca's EPISTULA 107; in Latin: "Ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt"; in English Destiny leads the willing, drags the unwilling.
Not sure who did the cartoon; the site I stole it from had stolen it from somewhere else without attribution.

About JE

James Enge is the author of the World-Fantasy-Award-nominated novel Blood of Ambrose (Pyr, April 2009). His latest book is The Wide World's End. His short fiction has appeared in Black Gate, Tales from the Magician's Skull, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and elsewhere.
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