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We are the dragon.

• Taylor_OD 6y ago
  The dragon is whatever you want or need it to be. I saw oil/natural gas the first time I read the story. Disease and cancer the second.
  • garmaine 6y ago
    Well according to the author it is aging. It's a parable, not literature.
  • goatlover 6y ago
    It's aging, the one thing that all people succumb to if they don't die of something else first. In the story, the dragon is widely believed to be both inevitable and a necessary part of life, but there are always a few who thought otherwise. It was only when science reached a certain point did it become possible to see how the dragon might be slayed, potentially saving the increasing numbers of people taken by it every year as the human population grows. Aging is the only thing that matches the dragon.