See Comments:11. Belling the Cat
This is an old children's story that often applies to peoples' opinions.
There once was a group of mice living in a house. There was also a cat in that house. The cat liked to chase, pounce on, and eat the mice.
One day, one of the mice came up with an idea. "The basic problem is that the cat is just so silent. What if we were to put a bell on the cat? Then we could hear the cat coming and run away. We could thus run around the house much more safely."
The other mice all, of course, agreed that this was a really good idea.
There was unfortunately one problem with this idea. Who's going to put the bell on the cat?
The mice never did come up with an answer to that dangerous problem ( Christopher B. Browne's Home Page cbbrowne@gmail.com )
Think back to the fable for a moment. Would the lives of Aesop's mice be improved if the cat had a bell around its neck? Surely. Would the bell save the lives of future mice? Absolutely. Would the belling of the cat erase (or at least mitigate) the specter of terror from the hearts of the mice? Without a doubt. Could the deed be accomplished without risk or sacrifice? Almost certainly not. (Jeff Edwards is a retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer, and an Anti-Submarine Warfare Specialist...)
2 comments:
Is this anything like belling the cat? Makes one wonder what young Werner did when he was still a learner at the University of Mein Verner. Da gruebenstein.
Yeah, exactly. I'm wondering if 49 instruments is all that great after all.
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