According to a 19th century legend, the Truth and the Lie meet one day. The Lie says to the Truth: "It's a marvellous day today"! The Truth looks up to the skies and sighs, for the day was really beautiful. They spend a lot of time together, ultimately arriving beside a well.
The Lie tells the Truth: "The water is very nice, let's take a bath together!" The Truth, once again suspicious, tests the water and discovers that it indeed is very nice. They undress and start bathing. Suddenly, the Lie comes out of the water, puts on the clothes of the Truth and runs away.
The furious Truth comes out of the well and runs everywhere to find the Lie and to get her clothes back. The World, seeing the Truth naked, turns its gaze away, with contempt and rage.
The poor Truth returns to the well and disappears forever, hiding therein, its shame. Since then, the Lie travels around the world, dressed as the Truth, satisfying the needs of society, because, the World, in any case, harbours no wish at all to meet the naked Truth.
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| The world famous painting- "The Truth coming out of the well" Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1896. |
But of course if you have clothes then there is always the problem of folding them away...
here are a few helpful tips...
Meanwhile, yesterday we discovered that they do not do Bonfire night in Crete - well why should they? they haven't (to my knowledge) tried to burn down their government though if I were to lok hard I am sure that they have !!!
But we decided that as Scarlett was 4, she should know a little of our British inheritance... you know - that bit about taking a person - and putting them onto a fire and burning them as a celebration. The Nice Stuff... And we did have a coy of the Sun newspaper form the airport (it was free) together with the Times (also free but a better class of rubbish for burning)
And we also had a 65 year old Pyromaniac / Fire Marshal who proved excellent at taking the barbecue coals and lighting the bonfire....
Burn Baby Burn !!!
Yamas
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