In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.
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It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read.
In real life, of course, it is the hare that wins. Every time. Look around you.
All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
It seems like a totally gratuitous myth to tell people a giant rabbit comes round at night leaving candy in a haphazard way around the house... and the cover shows the bunny caught in the act.
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns don't exist as animals. They exist as fantasy creatures.
I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
First a piece of Irish wisdom: you should always listen to a bookie. For they have a saying, 'Money tells a good story,' and somewhere in their odds is a kind of science-fiction existentialism that decrees that we, the people, know everything. In other words, betting patterns often make for good, unconscious soothsaying.
The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.