12 agosto 2018

A Philosophical Comment on Snakes

According to the poet, traveler, and politician Usama ibn Munqidh, who lived in the 1100s CE, “One of the wonders of the human heart is that a man may face certain death and embark on every danger without his heart quailing from it, and yet he may take fright from something that even boys and women do not fear.”

ibn Munqidh then told the story of a battle hero his father knew, who “would run out fleeing” if he saw a snake, “saying to his wife, ‘The snake’s all your’s!’ And she would have to get up to kill it.”

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