THE RAVEN AND THE FOX | RETOLD BY LEO TOLSTOY | MASTER READING - LISTENING WITH GRAMMAR ANALYSIS | AESOP STORIES | EFL RESOURCES

THE RAVEN AND THE FOX

A Raven got himself a piece of meat, and sat down on a tree. The Fox wanted to get it from him. She went up to him, and said:

"Oh, Raven, as I look at you,—from your size and beauty,—you ought to be a king! And you would certainly be a king, if you had a good voice."

The Raven opened his mouth wide, and began to croak with all his might and main. The meat fell down. The Fox caught it and said:

"Oh, Raven! If you had also sense, you would certainly be a king."

THE LION AND THE MOUSE | RETOLD BY LEO TOLSTOY | MASTER READING - LISTENING WITH GRAMMAR ANALYSIS | AESOP STORIES | EFL RESOURCES

THE LION AND THE MOUSE

A Lion was sleeping. A Mouse ran over his body. He awoke and caught her. The Mouse besought him; she said:

"Let me go, and I will do you a favour!"

The Lion laughed at the Mouse for promising him a favour, and let her go.

Then the hunters caught the Lion and tied him with a rope to a tree. The Mouse heard the Lion's roar, ran up, gnawed the rope through, and said:

"Do you remember? You laughed, not thinking that I could repay, but now you see that a favour may come also from a Mouse."

THE TURTLE AND THE EAGLE | RETOLD BY LEO TOLSTOY | MASTER READING - LISTENING WITH GRAMMAR ANALYSIS | AESOP STORIES | EFL RESOURCES

THE TURTLE AND THE EAGLE

A Turtle asked an Eagle to teach her how to fly. The Eagle advised her not to try, as she was not fit for it; but she insisted. The Eagle took her in his claws, raised her up, and dropped her: she fell on stones and broke to pieces.

THE PEASANT AND THE WATER-SPRITE | RETOLD BY LEO TOLSTOY | MASTER READING - LISTENING WITH GRAMMAR ANALYSIS | AESOP STORIES | EFL RESOURCES

THE PEASANT AND THE WATER-SPRITE

A Peasant lost his axe in the river; he sat down on the bank in grief, and began to weep.

The Water-sprite heard the Peasant and took pity on him. He brought a gold axe out of the river, and said: "Is this your axe?"

The Peasant said: "No, it is not mine."

The Water-sprite brought another, a silver axe.

Again the Peasant said: "It is not my axe."

Then the Water-sprite brought out the real axe.

The Peasant said: "Now this is my axe."

The Water-sprite made the Peasant a present of all three axes, for having told the truth.

At home the Peasant showed his axes to his friends, and told them what had happened to him.

One of the peasants made up his mind to do the same: he went to the river, purposely threw his axe into the water, sat down on the bank, and began to weep.

The Water-sprite brought out a gold axe, and asked: "Is this your axe?"

The Peasant was glad, and called out: "It is mine, mine!"

The Water-sprite did not give him the gold axe, and did not bring him back his own either, because he had told an untruth.

1000 YEARS AHEAD. | LET US PROJECT, FOR FUN, IN A POSITIVE SENSE |

LET US PROJECT, FOR FUN, IN A POSITIVE SENSE,

1000 YEARS AHEAD.

WHAT WILL HAPPEN?

FIRST STAGE –

All countries would be ruled by “religious power controls”

There would be life of a kind, but very coercive, and free speech gone. Even in first world countries.

There could be almost an international MAFIA.

SECOND STAGE –

(few centuries later, into the future)

REBELLIONS would slowly begin….and the above dark ages would be slowly ended…and THIS TIME…

With ALL holes closed to BLINDNESS…and all ideas proved and having reached a logical conclusion of full proof of idiocy…and death…

Mainly Religious and Kantian ideas. Super nature and nothingness, both denial of reality.

MAN AND MEN would have come of age.

WOULD REALISE FULLY….AND FINALLY…

AND HISTORY WILL HAVE ENDED…

Thus, THEN, it would be

FULLY and Fantastically beautiful…a Fantastic thing…

(Which we feel implicitly today, fifty percent)

Full benevolence, godless and yet profoundly blissful living, and it would be in the air, as they say…

Whatever we DO, out of our own passion, today, would contribute indirectly, TO that future.

That is how we came so far, and that is how we will go further, and farther too…

TO CONCRETISE ABOVE….

WORLD IS IDIOTIC!! Haha

In one sentence….

Narendra