I never knew Leonardo wrote fabels:
The Flea & the Sheep
A flea, who lived in the smooth hair of a dog, one day noticed the pleasant smell of wool.
"What is going on?"
He gave a little jump and saw that his dog had gone to sleep leaning against the fleece of a sheep.
"That fleece is exactly what I need," said the flea. "It is thicker and softer, and above all safer. There is no risk of meeting the dog's claws and teeth which go in search of me every now and then. And the sheep's wool will certainly feel more pleasant."
So without thinking too much about it, the flea moved house, leaping from the dog's coat to the sheep's fleece. But the wool was thick, so thick and dense that it was not easy to penetrate to the skin.
He tried and tried, patiently separating one strand from another, and laboriously making a way through. At last he reached the roots of the hair. But they were so close together that they practically touched. The flea had not even a tiny hole through which to attack the skin.
Tired, bathed in sweat and bitterly disappointed, the flea resigned himself to going back to the dog. But the dog had gone away.
Poor flea! He wept for days and days with regret for his mistake.
Hello Eliane
Are you the flea, is Windows the dog and Mac the sheep?
By the way, my ears like the sound of your voice. If drawing somehow should loose it's magic to you, being a Siren could be new careerchoice or airportvoice.
Bye Lex
Your voice? Have you blogged your voice somewhere? Did I miss something?
Haha, Lex. You funny!
Poor Leonardo must have been depressed the day he wrote this fable. And it wasn't a very good day either. I find the plot rather weak.
@Joost: besides blogging there are other ways of communicating, you of all people, Joost!
@ Lex: may I return the compliment? Siren is a bit much maybe, but you don't sound bad yourself!
And yes, the fable fitted my mood. Although I think it's like with astrology, you can fit anything you read to your own circumstances, if you want to enough.
Yes I know, it's not difficult to see signs. As long as you use it to convince yourself about something and leave others out it's OK.
I think a lot of Maccers would protest to my explanation. They would suggest the sheep for Windows, because of impenetrable structure near the core? Never especially liked my voice, but recently I notice I am able much better to amuse people and love them to laugh about me. The sentence I loudly laughed about today was a quote from Freek de Jonge by friend Bert:
"Je kunt zeggen wat je wilt, maar je kunt zeggen wat je wilt."
gelukkig maar
dat ik nog op een hond leef;-)