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Title
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Aesop's Foibles V: A Modest Contribution to the Decline of Western Civilisation (Volume 5)
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AFWR5
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Description
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Rabbi Walter Rothschild
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Creator
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Rothschild, Walter
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Date
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2023-09-20T15:17:04Z
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2022-10
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2022
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Date Available
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2023-09-20T15:17:04Z
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Date Issued
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2022
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Abstract
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The "Foreword" of this fifth volume begins "Good heavens! More of them! Yes." It contains this comment: "They are realistic in that not all of them have Morals -- just like human beings." These stories are "the things no-one else wants to talk or write about." My five this time were again a selection made according to the beginning T of C's titles. "The Lonely Glove" (#414) touches well into what seem to be universal experiences of the lost longing to become found. The moral? "Make Glove, Not More." "The Return Ticket" (#434) is a whimsical piece that reaches deep. "…actually, the one place we All want to go to, deep down inside ourselves, is Back Here" (181). I love "Advice to a Trappist Novice" (#456). A blank page concludes with this moral: "Don't say you were not warned. In fact, don't say Anything." And after a printer's design we have, as confirmation: "(Shush!)" This admonition sounds close enough to advice heard by this Jesuit novice 63 years ago! Try "A Boring Love Story" (#460). I suspect that it is boring because it is unlike any real love story I know. Well done! The last offering, #500, is "Meretricious Metrication." After some good play with individual letters and quantities of them, we have this moral: "Be grateful you aren't paying per letter." I am grateful! 232 pages, but who is counting?!
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Identifier
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13246 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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Amazon
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Berlin
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Subject
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Walter Rothschild