Giving in Love: Marc Gafni: Part Five

The Baron Loves

The giving necessary in love is made clear in a great folktale.

There was once a fisherman who caught a large pike. Seeing what a substantial catch this was, he says out loud, “I won’t eat this fish. He is such a great catch that I will take him to the Baron.

The Baron loves Pike.”

Hearing this the fish breathes a sigh of relief. “There’s some hope for me yet!”

The pike is brought to the manor house. At the gate the guard asks, “What do you have?”

“A large Pike!”

“Wonderful,” responds the guard. “The Baron loves Pike.”

The fish is by now sweating profusely and gasping for breath but he is relived.

A few more minutes, and he will be safe with the Baron.

The Baron loves Pike.

The Pike is brought into the kitchen; The Baron himself enters with a big smile on his face. “I love Pike,” says the Baron.

As the fish, with its ebbing strength, wiggles around to ask for water, he hears the Baron say, “Cut of the tail and head and slice it down the middle.”

In his last breath of terrible despair, the fish cries out “Why did you lie?

You don’t love Pike — you love yourself!”

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