THE PUPPET GODS Punch and Judy to their audience Our puppet strings are hard to see, so we perceive ourselves as free, convinced than no mere objects could behave in terms of bad and good. To you, we mannikins seem less than live, because our consciousness is that of dummies, made to sit on laps of gods and mouth their wit; Are you, our transcendental gods, likewise dangled from your rods, and need, to show spontaneous charm,