“The Zebra is striped all over so that the Lion can see him and eat him. Some people say he is striped so that the Lion can not see him. These people believe that the stripes of the Zebra simulate the bars of sunlight falling through the tall jungle grasses and that therefore the Zebra is invisible and that the earth is flat.” PeopleBelieveEarthFallInvisibleBarsGrassFlatsTallLionsSunlightCan NotJungleStripesSimulateZebras Book:The Great Bustard and Other People: Containing: How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes and How to Become Extinct Source: The Great Bustard and Other People: Containing: How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes and How to Become Extinct
“I can see others in the sunlight; I can see our boats' crews and our athletic young men on the glistening water, or speckled with the moving lights of sunlit leaves; but I myself am always in the shadow looking on. Not unsympathetically, - God forbid! - but looking on alone, much as I looked at Sylvia from the shadows of the ruined house, or looked at the red gleam shining through the farmer's windows, and listened to the fall of dancing feet, when all the ruin was dark that night in the quadrangle.” MenI CanLightMovingYoungNightFallHouseWaterNatureDarkFeetShadowRedWindowDancingShiningBoatRuinsYoung ManFarmersSunlightCrewRuinedAthleticGleamShining Through Book:Hard Times (And Other Stories) Source: Hard Times (And Other Stories)