I was travelling across a golden meadow when I encountered the tiger. I fled, with the tiger close behind.
Coming to a precipice, I caught hold of a wild vine and swung myself over the edge. The tiger sniffed my scent above.
Trembling, I looked down to the beach far below and saw a second tiger pacing the sands. Only the vine sustained me.
Two mice, one black and one white, came out of a crevice and started to gnaw away at the vine.
I saw a luscious strawberry nearby. Grasping the vine with one hand I picked it with the other. How sweet it tasted!
[with apologies to Zen]
Interesting Question
The State is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of behavior; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently toward one another....We are the state, and we shall continue to be the state until we have created the institutions that form a real community and society of men.
- Gustav Landauer, Schwache Stattsmanner, Schwacheres Volk!, June, 1910
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