• Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de
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    9 days ago

    Out of curiosity and as the comic might reference a similar tale:

    Do you folks all know the fable of the hare and the hedgehog?

    (or sth. in a similar fassion, e.g. the hare and the tortoise?)

    • brsrklf@jlai.lu
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      9 days ago

      I didn’t know the hare and the hedgehog before searching for it just now, apparently that one was in Grimm brothers’ tales.

      The hare and the tortoise, popularized by Jean de la Fontaine and a retelling of a very old tale present in Aesop’s, is the one referenced here.

      They both start with an arrogant hare mocking a slow animal and a race between them, and are probably inspired by the same material, but they diverge a lot in message according to what I read about the Grimms one.

      The hedgehog wins repeatedly through trickery and the story feels like him getting revenge against the hare for insulting him (especially since it ends with the hare’s death).

      The tortoise is just very resilient and focused while the hare is so confident he just messes around for a long time near the finish line, and misses the tortoise reaching it.