Parable
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Parable

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(Translation)

A long time ago a library burnt down. The only thing that survived the fire was an old manuscript. For years, it had been kept in the depth of a bookstore, unnoticed, until one day the store got a new owner. He decided to go through every book, manuscript, and scroll, and get rid of useless stuff. That's how the manuscript ended up in the hands of a beggar.

The beggar was going to start a fire with it to warm up but got curious about what was in it. And the manuscript said: "He who finds the warm boulder on a beach shore shall get everything he's ever dreamt of." The beggar had nothing to lose anyway so he went to the nearest beach...

He was picking up a boulder after a boulder but none of them was warm. Weeks, months, years passed, but he never stopped believing. And one day the beggar's palm touched a warm boulder. He picked it up and... threw it away in the ocean, just out of habit.

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