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In reply to the discussion: STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Friday, 1 June 2012 [View all]Demeter
(85,373 posts)A group of frogs who called on the great god Zeus to send them a king. He threw down a log, which fell in their pond with a loud splash and terrified them. Eventually one of the frogs peeped above the water and, seeing that it was no longer moving, soon all hopped upon it and made fun of their king. Then the frogs made a second request for a real king and were sent a water snake that started eating them. Once more the frogs appealed to Zeus, but this time he replied that they must face the consequences of their request...
Right now, we have King Log. The Log is getting worried. Think about how much of a problem there must be for a log to get agitated....
Oh! I forgot! Turn up the heat slowly and steadily, and you have freshly boiled frogs...Frog Soup!
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...one of Margaret Atwood's four short fictions in a 2005 issue of the magazine Daedalus engages with it directly. Titled "King Log in Exile", it features the deposed king musing on his ineffective reign, from which it gradually emerges that his inertia hid not harmlessness but a corrupt selfishness.
If the shoe fits, Cinderella, wear it!
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