In the 700s, a Persian scholar named Ibn al-Muqaffa recorded a parable, describing human existence. A man fears an elephant so he dangles himself into a pit to hide. He soon realizes there is a dragon waiting at the bottom of the pit, and rats are gnawing on the branches he is holding onto. The man then notices a beehive and tries its honey. He becomes “diverted, unaware, preoccupied with that sweetness” and while he is distracted, the rats finish gnawing the branches. The man falls into the dragon’s mouth with sweetness still on his tongue.
What a happy parable!
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