If the hidden story hides too well beneath the well-known story, it stays invisible. To be seen, the story hidden beneath the well-known story has to peak out a little bit. Whoever tells a well-known story like the one about the lion-sorcerer and the fickle princess might always be hiding another story beneath it. This story, like all interesting stories, is full of clever innuendo. “I swear to you that I heard the story of the lion-sorcerer just before leaving for the war. Whoever understands this secret has the potential to live in peace. To think too much about yourself is to falter. So, in order to find yourself in life, to not lose yourself on the path, you must listen to the voice of duty. Even if the new isn’t really new, it’s always new for those who, ceaselessly, wash up on the world’s shores, generation after generation, wave after wave. Men share with each other the same lifeblood, but each feeds himself from it differently. But what we experience is always new because every man is unique, the way every leaf and every tree is unique. Nothing that might happen to us here, as terrible or as felicitous as it might seem, is new. The effects of all human possibilities have already been felt. Any event that surprises a man has already been experienced by other men before him. “The greatest secret he taught us was that it isn’t the man who controls events but events that control the man.
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