SLSL Intro "Two Amiable Fuzzy Creatures"

[William Zantzinger]

Fuzzy-Wuzzy was a hedgehog
Fuzzy-Wuzzy had a sheep dog
Fuzzy-Wuzzy sheered his sheep dog
Fuzzy's sheep dog has no hair
Fuzzy-Wuzzy shaved him bare 
Was Fuzzy-Wuzzy fuzzy? Was he? Was he? Was he? 
No, he was a Hedgehog. 

  Schopenhauer's Parable of the Porcupines

 On a cold winter day, a group of porcupines huddled
 together closely to save themselves by their mutual
 warmth from freezing. But soon they felt the mutual
 quills and drew apart. Whenever the need for warmth
 brought them closer together again, this second evil
 was repeated, so that they were tossed back and forth
 between these two kinds of suffering until they
 discovered a moderate distance that proved most
 tolerable.- Thus the need for company, born of the
 emptiness and monotony inside them, drives men
 together; but their many revolting qualities and
 intolerable faults repel them again. The medium
 distance that they finally discover and that makes
  association possible is politeness and good manners.
  Whoever does not keep this distance is told, among
the  British: "keep your distance!"- To be sure, this
only  permits imperfect satisfaction of the need for
mutual warmth, but it also keeps one from feeling the
prick of the quills.- But whoever possesses much inner
warmth of his own will prefer to avoid company lest he
cause or suffer annoyance.
        
     




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