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Introducing: BOOK OF THE DAY, a delightful way to bring literature to the masses. BOOK OF THE DAY is the Library of Forgotten Pleasures way of providing reading material to the public from a selection of Authors who have donated their works to the Library.
Find your way to the GOLDEN WILLOW, GATEHEAD CLINIC, or peruse the FLORAL COURT district notice board to uncover this week's chosen book. Grab a pamphlet and dive into a world of forgotten pleasures!
[ooc notice: many parts of the lore in this book may be changed or outdated. This has been kept purposefully this way]
THE GNAT
&
THE CARPENTER
Ed 1
Author: Unknown {ooc; Bahmboozled}
One of Prophet.
Sanraan's many didactic tales shared with his followers, so that they may glean from these stories his wisdom.
In old Hyä-Ereya, in the times where a grand statue of Leyon was erected, it watched the Hyä-Monh settlement with piercing austerities. It was a magnificent creation, one that
covered the settlement entirely in its shadow.
Ordvaan of Moon-Lord's enlightened Menayavil, travelled to the Sunless City for pilgrimage, and there in the cities' outskirts dwelt a number of carpenters.
He chances a pair; father and son, and the both of them were splitting wood, up until a gnat settled on the father's face, and bit and pinched with bitterly, stinging pain,
So says the carpenter to his son, who was seated nearby:
"Boy, there is a gnat stinging me. Drive it away.
"Hold still, father," said the boy. "One blow will settle it."
"Rid me of it!" cries the father in response.
"All right father," says the son, who, behind his father's back, raised a sharp axe with the intent to only kill the gnat, instead cleave his father's head into two.
So the carpenter fell dead on the spot.
Mena ya vil had been
sitting in the carpenter's
shop, observing this, an eye witness of the whole scene.
So goes the following as he recites this later:
"Sense-lacking friends are worse than foes with sense;
Witness the son that
sought the gnat to
slay,
Only instead, poor
fool, cleft his father's skull in two."
Menayavil then departs, and the settlement gave the father a funeral.
Some say too that, in the distant skies above,
where the head of the statue reached the firmament, that Leyon wept a tear that day.
"Boy, there is a gnat stinging me. Drive it away.
"Hold still, father," said the boy. "One blow will settle it."
"Rid me of it!" cries the father in response.
"All right father," says the son, who, behind his father's back, raised a sharp axe with the intent to only kill the gnat, instead cleave his father's head into two.
So the carpenter fell dead on the spot.
Mena ya vil had been
sitting in the carpenter's
shop, observing this, an eye witness of the whole scene.
So goes the following as he recites this later:
"Sense-lacking friends are worse than foes with sense;
Witness the son that
sought the gnat to
slay,
Only instead, poor
fool, cleft his father's skull in two."
Menayavil then departs, and the settlement gave the father a funeral.
Some say too that, in the distant skies above,
where the head of the statue reached the firmament, that Leyon wept a tear that day.
