Tagged and Confused …

I’ve been tagged by Spokane Al. Normally that would not confuse me. But it would be too simple if I could just follow the instructions:

1. Find the nearest book.
2. Name the book & the author.
3. Turn to page 123.
4. Go to the fifth sentence on the page. Copy out the next three sentences and post to your blog.
5. Tag three more folks.

Book. Check.
The Medici Aesop. This is a reproduction of Spencer Manuscript 50 from the Spencer Collection of the New York Public Library.

Author. The complications start here. Aesop. Forward by Everett Fahy. Translated from the Greek by Bernard McTigue.

Page 123, check. Fifth english sentence, check. Then … no more sentences, except in Greek, which I can’t type.

So … instead, I bring you The Crow and The Snake (Folios 53r-53v).

A crow, desperate for something to eat, spied a snake dozing in the sun. He pounced on the reptile and then flew off with it. The serpent awakened with a start and bit the bird. As the crow expired he cried out: “I thougth I had found salvation, instead I have found death.”

The moral of this fable is: So, too, with men who look for treasure and lose their lives.

Oh, well, my motto is "nothing is ever simple or easy!".

Now I have to tag people. I call on Trimama (maybe on her fancy new blog), Dave Rotor at Procurement Investor (when he gets back from holidays), and Brent.