Dove sees painted cups of water and dashes into them

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Dove sees painted cups of water and dashes into them.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd misunderstandings. · One thing mistaken for another. · Shadow mistaken for substance. · view the constellation · filed as J1792.1

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

general Wienert FFC LVI 64 (ET 276), 107 (ST 196)
general Halm Aesop No. 357.

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Filed under Picture mistaken for original.

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