Month: July 2020
-
The Fable of the Chipmunk, the Bear, and the Sunflower Seeds ; or, How Fortuna’s Wheel Turns such That in the End no one should try to rise above the “Rank or Station wherein the ALMIGHTY Has plac’t him” lest he find the ever-spinning WHEEL of FATE returns him to his place
A chipmunk believes that through his own actions he can free himself from the spinning wheel of fate, from Necessity, the loom on which the length of our days is woven at the moment of our birth.
-
“If men had wings and bore black feathers, few of them would be clever enough to be crows.” Or, “If men were feathered out and given a pair of wings, a very few of them would be clever enough to be crows.” Or … ?
In which two Librarians practice their craft in determining the veracity of a commonly attributed quote of the crow as mirror of the man.
The Sign of the Two Ravens 