The selection recorded for yesterday was to her fellow writers. She speaks of how the world of a story-teller is both an external world and an internal one. What happens in the mind and heart of the writer allows a more vivid description of what is happening in the world around.
She uses words from St Cyril of Jerusalem, who said "The dragon sits by the side of the road, watching those who pass. Beware lest he devour you. We go to the Father of Souls, but it is necessary to pass by the dragon."
Dragons are not lurking around campus or in town. But speaking of dragons may allow one to call attention to the dangers which are present and ever threatening to undo the good to which you aspire. If this vivid (though clearly exaggerated) depiction of the dangers which surround you helps, then thank God for its use.
One can dismiss the imagery as the musings of an over-active imagination. And be justified in doing so. Or one can realize that the author/poet/speaker may see what we too could benefit from seeing.
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