Friday, December 12, 2008

Once there was a very poor, poor man who worked outside all day.

One day after a tiring day at the fields, the man had enough money to buy three small loaves of bread and one tiny pretzel.

He was hungry so he ate the first loaf.

He was still hungry so he ate the second loaf.

He was still hungry so he ate the third loaf.

He was still hungry so he ate the pretzel.

After eating the pretzel he felt full. "What a fool I've been," he said to himself. "I should have just eaten the pretzel first!"

-a parable from Tolstoy (quoted in David Mamet's Three Uses for the Knife)

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