2023 T-shirt with image and lines from "The Scorpion and the Frog."
This shirt image represents a surprising choice. Most people do not know this fable of a frog who offers a ride to a scorpion. The scorpion stings and kills him along the way. "Why?" the dying frog asks. "Because I am a scorpion!" It is typical fable wisdom: learn or get destroyed; or never trust a killer. This design-artist adds "Laugh out loud!" and "In my arrogant opinion."
2019 T-shirt with Harrison Weir's illustration of TH and "Aesop's Fables The Tortoise and the Hare." Gift. Christmas, 2018.
What a treat to see an old classic illustration like this still alive land well! The bunny sleeps as the turtle trudges
2020 T-shirt featuring "Quid rides? De te fabula narratur" from Horace. Short sleeves.
This has been a favorite line of mine from Horace's Satire I 1, verse 69. He has just been retelling the story of Tantalus as part of his satirical attack on people's wayward desires. "Why do you laugh? Just change the name and the story is about you!"
