Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Schizophrenic Parables

Once upon a time, a lonely rich man sought the help of an acquaintance to recover his buried treasure in the desert. They agreed to share the bounty equally if the aquantaince agrees to do all the digging. The aquantiance had his reservations initially but felt that it is only fair since the rich man has the knowledge to the whereabouts of the treasure.

After roaming about the desert for seven days on camelback, they finally reach the spot marked 'X'.

The aquaintance began to dig with his shovel.

Beaten by the fierce Saharan sun, beads of sweat flow like a river in this barren desert as he tirelessly push his shovel into the Saharan sand.

He digs deeper...

...and deeper...

...and deeper...

Still the treasure is not in sight. He questions the rich man, to which answers that the treasure is buried really deep.

After digging for more than two days tirelessly without food or water, the acquaintance finally died.

Seeing this, the rich man sighed and with his own shovel covered the hole with sand.

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