Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Race between a Hare and a Tortoise 歸兔競賽


It was 2019 in Taiwan. A hare jumped up and down telling the media that he was the best and the only racer to beat the tortoise who won the world-face face or presidency of a nation that would not claim to be an independent nation. But he refused to participate in the race for nomination in his camp. He was recruited to run the race against the tortoise for the once in four year event.
Actually there was a fox that challenged the nomination by obtaining a special honorary membership of that camp and got enrolled in the race for nomination. The fox lost the race and tried to find another way to race against the tortoise for presidency ruling all species of the animals.
 The hare, mocking as a foolish fish, was feverishly campaigning with large trend-setting show in many places before the race for nomination and continue after winning the nomination and before actual enrollment for the final race against the tortoise.
The whole nation was immersed in the speculative news and talk-shows around the racers and the race. The fish and the fox, and later a white senile hare stormed the news with their joking remarks, premature judgments, and misleading gestures. The tortoise did not participate in the eye- and ear-catching news-making except continuing to announce, quietly, new policies made and new plans for leading the nation forward.
It would be a new way of testifying the theories in the stories of racing between the hare and the tortoise.
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A Hare was making fun of the Tortoise one day for being so slow.
"Do you ever get anywhere?" he asked with a mocking laugh.
"Yes," replied the Tortoise, "and I get there sooner than you think. I'll run you a race and prove it."
The Hare was much amused at the idea of running a race with the Tortoise, but for the fun of the thing he agreed. So the Fox, who had consented to act as judge, marked the distance and started the runners off.
The Hare was soon far out of sight, and to make the Tortoise feel very deeply how ridiculous it was for him to try a race with a Hare, he lay down beside the course to take a nap until the Tortoise should catch up.
The Tortoise meanwhile kept going slowly but steadily, and, after a time, passed the place where the Hare was sleeping. But the Hare slept on very peacefully; and when at last he did wake up, the Tortoise was near the goal. The Hare now ran his swiftest, but he could not overtake the Tortoise in time.
The race is not always to the swift.
 A Hare was making fun of the Tortoise one day for being so slow.

“Do you ever get anywhere?” he asked with a mocking laugh.
“Yes,” replied the Tortoise, “and I get there sooner than you think. I’ll run you a race and prove it.”
The Hare was much amused at the idea of running a race with the Tortoise, but for the fun of the thing he agreed. So the Fox, who had consented to act as judge, marked the distance and started the runners off.
The Hare was soon far out of sight, and to make the Tortoise feel very deeply how ridiculous it was for him to try a race with a Hare, he lay down beside the course to take a nap until the Tortoise should catch up.
The Tortoise meanwhile kept going slowly but steadily, and, after a time, passed the place where the Hare was sleeping. But the Hare slept on very peacefully; and when at last he did wake up, the Tortoise was near the goal. The Hare now ran his swiftest, but he could not overtake the Tortoise in time.
Moral

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