Third TaleA mother had her child taken from the cradle by elves.In its place they laid a changeling with a thick head and staring eyes who would do nothing but eat and drink.
But within all this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we shall live: courageously or in cowardice, honorably or dishonorably, with purpose or in drift.
He might have said, seek lux et veritas, light and truth, through adi alterum partem, pivoting to the other side. – that is, if Rabbi Hillel spoke Latin.