Thursday 23 August 2012

The Race is Not to The Swift

One man’s mission to share with the world the fine art of cufflinks.  

Each blog a different pair and each blog a different story.  Read on in this series ....

 
One of the great story tellers of all time is Aesop (above).  He is up there with the greats and the stories are wonderful for adults and children alike.  Aesop's Fables is a great read and if buying a copy make sure you get the right version that is filled with wonderful illustrations.  Your scribe's version has hundreds of fables and is a wonderful large hard cover edition that takes occasional pride of place on the coffee table when friends with kids come around.  Your scribe is lucky enough to have some lovely old editions in Latin and Ancient Greek.


Strangely there is no real record of Aesop but some speculation has him living around 640 BC in Greece. Having 700 odd fables attributed to him makes it all a bit weird that there is no real record of him having actually written anything. But alas his stories are perhaps the most enduring traditions of European culture and have been in print since the 14th Century.



Just about everybody on the planet knows of at least one or two of his wonderful tales like the Lion and The Mouse.....the Boy Who Cried Wolf.....and your scribes all time favourite The Hare and The Tortoise. The story of course is about the overly confident hare pitching a race against the slow and humble tortoise. I will leave you to read the rest and make your own views on the moral outcomes of the story.


Hence today's links, which are pressed metal tortoises that I found in one of the "treasure" drawers in Tresors, a small antique store in Sydney's wonderful Strand Arcade.  The Links of course allow me to wear one of my favourite Salvatore Ferragamo silk ties that has running hares and bunches of grapes as motifs.  Worn today with a tailored pink pin stripe cotton shirt.

Til Later




ONWARD

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