Numskull forgets name of certain food and thinks that it has fallen into sand

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Numskull forgets name of certain food and thinks that it has fallen into sand.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd disregard of facts. · Absurd searches for the lost. · view the constellation · filed as J1924

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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.

IndiaThompson-Balys.

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Filed under Absurd searches for the lost.

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The needle (or the like) falls into the sea: sought the next summer Marking the place The rejected bread resought. Numskull looks for bread that he threw away a year before

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