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There was a man once - a satirist. In the natural course of time his friends slew him, and he died. And the people came and stood about his corpse. He treated the whole round world as his football, they said, indignantly, and he kicked it. The dead man opened one eye. But always toward the Goal, he said. There was a man once a naturalist. And one day he found a lobster upon the sands of time. Society is a lobster; it crawls backward. How black it is! said the naturalist. And he put it in a little pan over the hot fire of his wit. It will turn red, he said. But it didn't. That was its shamelessness. There was a man once - a logician. He picked up a little clay ball upon the path of life. It is a perfect little globe said his companions. But the logician saw that it was not mathematically round. And he took it in his hands and rubbed it between them, softly. Don't rub so hard, said his companions. And at last he desisted, and looked down upon it. It was not a bit rounder, only pushed out of shape. And he looked at his hands. They were very dirty. There was a man once - a poet. He went wandering through the streets of the city, and he met a disciple. Come out with me, said the poet, for a walk in the sand-dunes. And they went. But ere they had progressed many stages, said the disciple, There is nothing here but sand. To what did I invite you? asked the poet. To a walk in the sand-dunes. Then do not complain, said the poet. Yet even so your words are untrue. There is heaven above. Do you not see it? The fault is not heaven's. Nor the sand's. About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically im

Title: God's Fool. A Koopstad story.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century's most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of works the collection also includes song-books, comedy, and works of satire. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:++++<Source Library> British Library<Contributors> Maartens, Maarten; <Original Pub Date> 1892.<Physical Description> 3 vol. ; 8º.<Shelfmark> 012638.ppp.3.

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