Ruler's absurdity rebuked — Mythoi

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Ruler's absurdity rebuked.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever practical retorts. · One absurdity rebukes another. · view the constellation · filed as J1536

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Filed under One absurdity rebukes another.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Absurdity of entrusting military mission to bishop. Courtier rebukes king by asking that he be given an ecclesiastical post Absurdity of trying to convert king to Hinduism – like making cow of donkey or black dog into white

Filed beside it

Borrower's absurdities Adulteress's absurdity rebuked Absurdities concerning birth of animals, or men. (Cf. J1531.3.) Deer captured in bird-net: water flows upstream. One partner claims a deer he has captured in his bird-net. The other pretends to be watching water flow upstream One absurdity rebukes another – miscellaneous

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