Summary
Hans Joachim Schadlich: Give him speech
- The life and death of the poet Aesop
Aesop was toothless, his speech barely understandable. Aesop squinted. He stuck his head out. His nose was flat, his skin the color of dirt. Aesop's stomach twisted over his belt. He was guilty. His left arm was shorter than his right. Some say: his right hand was shorter than his left. Aesop was a slave. It was unusable for work in the city. His master assigned him to work in the fields...
"The Great Book" ("Die Zeit"), based on an anonymous Greek novel (according to a 10th-century manuscript) about the life of one of the most wonderful figures of ancient Greece.
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