365 Successful Fables: The Mice and the Cat
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2008 , 2008?
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The four fables presented and illustrated in this volume are: The Mice and the Cat; The Parasol and the Travellers; The Bird Learning to Neigh; and The Frogs and the God. BC has a curious moral: Everybody's business is nobody's business (4). The issue here is that they are all afraid and that thus no one would do it. The second fable marks the first time that I have seen a tree referred to as a parasol tree. I see that Chinese parasol tree is in Merriam Webster. The Bird Learning to Neigh is new to me but follows a regular fable theme, well summed up in the moral here: Don't bite off more than you can chew (12). The bird can imitate lots of birds but hurts his throat and loses his voice trying to learn to neigh like a horse which he admires. Aesop has the crow trying to be as white as the swan and so leaving the altars where he ate leftover sacrifices and instead swimming in the swan's lakes and rivers. He wastes away. The final fable is FK, with a monster as the second king. An inch given, a mile taken (16). The visual artist offers a good frightening monster!
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You Fu Culture Co. Ltd.
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9009 (Access ID)