Yeah, so I'm not feeling very well today... so I've been doing a bit of reading. I stumbled across an old book of Aesop's fables that got me to thinking... who was Aesop anyway? Like a true nerdlinger... I did some research.
The weird thing is... the only thing people seem to agree on is that Aesop lived somewhere around 600 B.C. and at some point in his life was a slave. Everything else is speculative. There was one thing I read about him that I thought was cool... if it was true. He was supposedly sent as an ambassador to Delphi with a large shipment of gold to pass out to the citizens there. When disgusted with their covetousness and greed... he refused to pass out the gold to them, which ultimately resulted in his death at their grubby hands.
I doubt all that is true... but if it is... rock on Aesop. I'd rather die than give out money to jerks, too.
I'll leave you with one of my newly found favorites for your reading pleasure:
"The Wolf & the Lion"
A Wolf, having stolen a lamb from a fold, was carrying him off to his lair. A Lion met him in the path, and seizing the lamb, took it from him. Standing at a safe distance, the Wolf exclaimed, "You have unrighteously taken that which was mine from me!" To which the Lion jeeringly replied, "It was righteously yours, eh? The gift of a friend?"
*The picture at the outset of this post is credited to my mad Microsoft Paint skills. Thanks to Herman Weiners for his patience in posing for me.
