Words of wisdom

Aug 12, 2008 08:29

Found a summary of an old folk tale from the Earth-That-Was.

"There is an old Italian folktale from Friuli in which an old king is searching for a truly happy man. He sends ambassadors and wise men far and wide to find a happy man. They repeatedly find men who are not really happy. The king has been told that in order to save his son who is dying of sadness he must get him to wear the shirt of a happy man. After many months of failure the king stumbles onto a young man singing in a vineyard, and discovers indeed that this is truly a happy man. His son is saved. But when the king starts to take off the young man's jacket he stops suddenly. The happy man has no shirt."

We should all be shirtless. :)

((ooc: Summary from here.))
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