The Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon

Aesop

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Chronicling the journey through Helena’s book recs.
Summary

Aesoph’s fables are a bit of a guilty pleasure for me, but I also think they have real practical use for analogy and associative reasoning. This particular selection from Penguin was great — it doesn’t modernize the language much.

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