Looks like I'd better read that book than do hard thinking about this your new parable. And prolong your start of the incomparable
Heine's "Lorelei":

"Ich weiß nicht was " soll es bedeuten,
Daß ich so traurig bin,
Ein Märchen aus uralten Zeiten,
Das kommt mir nicht aus dem Sinn.

And so on and so on for this cliché and much parodied
poem from the German Romantic period.

Heinrich Heine, 1822 (1799-1856)

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