There are cages made of iron. And then there are cages with comfortable chairs. Those are harder to recognize. Aesop tells of a king with one beloved son, a young man fond of martial exercises and presumably quite capable of finding trouble […]
There was once a donkey who carried bags of salt for a merchant. Every day, the merchant loaded the salt across his back, and every day the donkey carried it along the same road and through the same stream. One […]
Jupiter was assigning duties and privileges to the gods. One by one they came forward and received their portion. Then Grief arrived late. By then, there was nothing left to give her. So Jupiter assigned Grief the tears shed for the […]
