ABSTRACT

Once upon a time there were identical twin brothers Aesop and Damian. From birth on they were inseparable and so identical in every respect that when interacting with others, they would ask and respond to questions in unison, tell the same moral fables in unison, and so on. So Aesop learned just what Damian learned. And Aesop expressed exactly the learning that Damian expressed. One night, Zeus came down from Olympus and delivered a printing press to Aesop and ordered him, on pain of death, not to let anyone else use it—not even Damian. Aesop used the press and, to this day, we remember Aesop’s fables and not Damian’s.