It Strikes Me as Odd — A Fable

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Once upon a time in a place called Nowhere during the era of Ubiquity were two women having tea and scones in an elegant and dainty café.
“It strikes me as odd that the color of money is green,” Aye Whole said as she put a piece of scone in her mouth.
“I think it would be much prettier if it were rainbow-colored don’t you?” said her friend Fallow Weir.
“No. As someone who has a lot of money, I can without a doubt say that money would be much more pleasantly held in my hands if it were a different color. Say the color of gold for the rich and brown for the poor.”
“Why brown for the poor?” Fallow asked while stirring her tea.
“Because brown is the color of excrement,” replied Aye. “And everything the poor touches in a sense turns into excrement. And it should be gold for the rich because we have the Read more of this post
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It Strikes Me as Odd — A Fable
Wikimedia Commons
Once upon a time in a place called Nowhere during the era of Ubiquity were two women having tea and scones in an elegant and dainty café.
“It strikes me as odd that the color of money is green,” Aye Whole said as she put a piece of scone in her mouth.
“I think it would be much prettier if it were rainbow-colored don’t you?” said her friend Fallow Weir.
“No. As someone who has a lot of money, I can without a doubt say that money would be much more pleasantly held in my hands if it were a different color. Say the color of gold for the rich and brown for the poor.”
“Why brown for the poor?” Fallow asked while stirring her tea.
“Because brown is the color of excrement,” replied Aye. “And everything the poor touches in a sense turns into excrement. And it should be gold for the rich because we have the Read more of this post
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