ABSTRACT
Let me ask you something. Have you heard the story of the vizier’s son? His father, the minister, had offended the ruler, and so he and his family were imprisoned for a very long time, so long in fact that the son knew only prison life. He reached the age of reason shortly after his release and, one night at dinner, the son asked his father about the meat he had been eating. “It’s lamb,” said the father. The son then asked the father, “What is lamb?” The father described the animal to the son, to which the son replied, “Do you mean it is like a rat?” “No!” said the father. “What have lambs to do with rats?” And the same continued then with cows and camels for, you see, the son had seen only rats in prison. He knew no other animal.
