Imagine a bright little Hansel with no bread… imagine an unidea-ed Gretel and the bread she was saving for trading for a pan… Hansel requires a knife in order to cut the bread into equal pieces – symmetry is life… he tries to improvise a knife out of a matchstick, two coins and a banana leaf… by the time he has managed to balance one coin atop a matchstick, Gretel finds a signpost pointing the way home… however, only Hansel has the authorization to decipher the directions… he tries… meanwhile, to pass time, Gretel hollers for a cab and fights with him over the extortionate fare… “you can’t fool me… I live in this ‘ere wilderness”… Hansel pouts… Gretel haggles – successfully… Hansel back-seat-drives… on the way Hansel buys a map and Gretel buys potatoes ‘real-cheap’… one never knows with roadmaps and potatoes… the more the merrier…
They did reach home – eventually… and I am glad they were together… the wonder of it is that so were they…
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