Scribe cannot write a letter because he has bad leg. Must carry letter in person since no one else can read it

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Scribe cannot write a letter because he has bad leg. Must carry letter in person since no one else can read it.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd lack of logic. · Other logical absurdities. · view the constellation · filed as J2242.1

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Filed under Carrying his own message. A man who is away from home writes a letter to his wife but can find no messenger. He delivers the letter himself and then goes on back to where he has been.

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Fool writes letter very slowly: recipient cannot read fast

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