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438 days ago
Thanks to the internet, Google search and LEO forums, I am reunited with this wonderful short text by James Thurber. The line reason is six sevenths of treason stuck in my mind ever since I first read the story back in 1987. Here is the tale of the peacelike mongoose in its full glory. The Peacelike Mongoose by James Thurber In cobra country a mongoose was born one day who didn't want to fight cobras or anything else. The word spread from mongoose to mongoose that there was a mongoose who didn't want to fight cobras. If he didn't want to fight anything else, it was his own business, but it was the duty of every mongoose to kill cobras or be killed by cobras. "Why?" asked the peacelike mongoose, and the word went around that the strange new mongoose was not only pro-cobra and anti-mongoose but intellectually curious and against the ideals and traditions of mongooism. "He is crazy," cried the young mongoose's father. "He is sick," said ...474 days ago
Thanks to the internet, Google search and LEO forums, I am reunited with this wonderful short text by James Thurber. The line reason is six sevenths of treason stuck in my mind ever since I first read the story back in 1987. Here is the tale of the peacelike mongoose in its full glory. The Peacelike Mongoose by James Thurber In cobra country a mongoose was born one day who didn't want to fight cobras or anything else. The word spread from mongoose to mongoose that there was a mongoose who didn't want to fight cobras. If he didn't want to fight anything else, it was his own business, but it was the duty of every mongoose to kill cobras or be killed by cobras. "Why?" asked the peacelike mongoose, and the word went around that the strange new mongoose was not only pro-cobra and anti-mongoose but intellectually curious and against the ideals and traditions of mongooism. "He is crazy," cried the young mongoose's father. "He is sick," said ...
