Reading Notes: The Giant Crab and Other Tales from Old India Part A




  • If you have enemies, crush them.
  • Crocodile tears
  • "Tell-tale tit"
  • If someone steals your plough, steal their son.
  • What the fuck does Buddha have against cats?
  • It's that talking turtle again.
  • Don't put monkeys in charge of a garden. 
  • Only a great fool entrusts tasks to the foolish.
  • If no one blesses you when you sneeze, Goblins can gobble you up.
  • Straws will save you from Goblins.
  • Poems are hard.
  • Faeries will fuck you up.
Source: W. H. D. Rouse, The Giant Crab, and Other Tales from Old India

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