Sunday, January 25, 2015

Reading Diary A: Tales of Bidpai

Here are some notes on the Tales of Bidpai.


This story was crazy interesting. It turned out that the falcon was actually trying to protect the king from drinking the poison. The king was left to live with his harsh punishment. The moral to this story is to not make any rash decisions, but to give everyone a chance to prove their innocence.


I guess there wasn’t much thought about it then, but that was a very odd way for the merchant to get back at the friend. I don’t really see how it would make sense to abduct a child ever, but it did make for a very interesting, serious twist to the story.
(Image Information: An iron ingot; Web Source: Minecraft Wiki)


Another story that seems so weird. The wise king has a plan to make his two sons more humble and careful with money, but the hermit he leaves the money with dies. Then, by some insane luck, one prince finds the gold and ends up as the king after the other prince is killed in a battle because his army had no money. It was just very weird.


This story reminds me a lot of the donut experiment in psychology (in which a child is shown an old donut and says he/she may have that donut now, or if they wait, a fresh one in several minutes). The fox could have food for many days if he let the lion eat the ass unfortunately, he couldn’t resist the old donut.

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