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Do you have a " Modern Parable For The Middle East" ?
Jones, a wealthy financier, had on many occasion in the good old days - when trains were flourishing and coaches were the last word in technological luxury - crossed the continent by Pullman. He was well known and well served and was accustomed to every convenience, particularly when dining. Imagine his exasperation, then, when it turned out that the chef did not have tutti-frutti ice cream.
“No tutti-frutti?” he shouted. “I always have tutti-frutti.”
“I’m sorry, sir,” said the waiter, soothingly. “We have chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, black walnut, cherry, mocha almond -”
“I want tutti-frutti,” cried Jones, banging the table and turning red. “I have always had tutti-frutti and I won’t have anything else.”
For miles he muttered, scowled, growled, and snarled at everyone, so that every train employee on board had visions of angry reprisals. Finally, the train stopped at a station; a word to the conductor kept it there while the crew scoured the town for tutti-frutti ice cream.
A whole pint of the dessert was found and all of it was presented to Jones, with huge gobs of cherry sauce on it, together with a sliced banana and a swirl of whipped cream.
“Here is your tutti-frutti ice cream, Mr. Jones,” said the quaking waiter.
Jones looked at it with a scowl, then with a sudden swipe of his arm hurled it to the floor, shouting, “I’d rather have my grievance!”.
The following is from the late science fiction author and polymath Isaac Asimov who adds, “And how many of the world’s miseries are caused by people who won’t be consoled because they would rather have their grievances. And how many speeches on the Middle East situation of the sixties and seventies might profitably [have begun] with a story like the one above”.
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- Judy's RabbitLv 41 decade agoFavorite Answer
That's right we don't get fanatics in the West
Or do we hmm.......
Those places that were invaded by the Crusaders didn't invade us to blatantly steal from us and kill us, yet the re-birth of the crusaders or brave and honourable heros as they like to be known continue to rape it today on behalf of the elite.
Many of us have noticed something strange too, some of the Ex-Colonies are the only places that are suffering, such as the Congo and India.
Source(s): That could be misconstrued don't you know? *wiggles and twitches nose* - Anonymous1 decade ago
Sir I disagree with every word you say, yet I would defend your right to say with a small cotton bud dipped in goat's cheese on any Tuesday evening of your choice between now and Christmas. On a more personal note. You smell.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
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- 1 decade ago
My favourite is the novelist Amos Oz's comparison of the western (which he rejects) and the tragedy (which he favours) in his little, precious book, Help Us to Divorce. He also wrote, on the same subject, How to Cure a Fanatic.
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
If I don't get a banana split for afters tonight I will be whipping the neighbour with my big axe.
Source(s): RIGHT!! THAT DOES IT we don't have any ice-cream or cream. Hey! I'm a cold bizatch and I was bred up North it must be my Viking ancestry putting such thoughts into my mind, that kind of puts that silly theory out the window doesn't it?
