Chagur
12-10-02, 07:41 PM
Every so often I do something stupid just for the hell of it; like re-reading
Aesop's Fables. Lo, what do I come across but 'The Wolf and the Lamb:'
Wolf, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent
hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf's right to
eat him. He thus addressed him: "Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me."
"Indeed," bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice, "I was not then
born." Then said the Wolf, "You feed in my pasture." "No, good sir," replied
the Lamb, "I have not yet tasted grass." Again said the Wolf, "You drink of
my well." "No," exclaimed the Lamb, "I never yet drank water, for as yet my
mother's milk is both food and drink to me." Upon which the Wolf seized him
and ate him up, saying, "Well! I won't remain supperless, even though you
refute every one of my imputations."
The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.
Why seems it that this has something to do with 'current events'?
PS For those who maybe interested, George F. Townsend's translation
is available at: http://www.literature.org/authors/aesop/fables/
Aesop's Fables. Lo, what do I come across but 'The Wolf and the Lamb:'
Wolf, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent
hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf's right to
eat him. He thus addressed him: "Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me."
"Indeed," bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice, "I was not then
born." Then said the Wolf, "You feed in my pasture." "No, good sir," replied
the Lamb, "I have not yet tasted grass." Again said the Wolf, "You drink of
my well." "No," exclaimed the Lamb, "I never yet drank water, for as yet my
mother's milk is both food and drink to me." Upon which the Wolf seized him
and ate him up, saying, "Well! I won't remain supperless, even though you
refute every one of my imputations."
The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.
Why seems it that this has something to do with 'current events'?
PS For those who maybe interested, George F. Townsend's translation
is available at: http://www.literature.org/authors/aesop/fables/