I caught and thoroughly appreciated (and was delighted by) your reference, and of course must acknowledge that the snake in the Aesop fable was not entirely innocent. Nevertheless, that snake never pretended to be anything other than was: a snake. The farmer knew very well what he was dealing with, before he took him in. With the senior Mr. Lieberman, just speaking for myself up to late 2000, we never knew that he was a snake, until he was already inside our tent. Both can be deadly, obviously. I cannot avoid the conclusion that, morally at least, the snake was far more honorable. That’s all I was trying to say.
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