Not as many favourites this time, most of the readings were more abstract, especially the latter stories. I picked the ones I felt connected and carried the same feelings as the favourites I picked in Diary A. This will help connect them to the scene for this week's Storytelling.
The Fox and the Crow
Crane 12: Beware of flatterers.
The Swallow and the Other Birds
Jacobs 12: Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.
The Eagle and the Arrow
Jacobs 75: We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
Fortune and the Boy
Crane 61: Fortune is not answerable for our want of foresight.
Illustration by Walter Crane from Baby's Own Aesop.
Notes:
Use morals to create scene of Absalom's betrayal. How to include and remain under 1000 words? Inference, direct inclusion through dialogue or stylistically as subheadings?
Perhaps the story is told from an outside point of view (One of the Antiquities?) so possible inclusion in dialogue will not sound stilted. Who are they telling it to? Maybe Melanthios' successor (Phaedra) as 'morals/warnings' not to fall into the same traps.
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