Instructions for a Successful Career!

Eduardo GaleanoInstructions for a Successful Career!

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A thousand years ago, the sultan of Persia said, "How delicious."

He was eating his first eggplant, sliced and dressed with ginger and Nile herbs.

The court poet praised the eggplant for the pleasure it brings to the palate and the bedroom, for the miraculous feats of love that outshine the wonders of the powdered tiger's tooth or grated rhinoceros horn.

Mouthfuls later, the sultan said, "What garbage."

The court poet then cursed the perfidious eggplant for the torture it wreaks on stomach and brain, for the delirium and insanity that brings virtuous men to ruin.

" A minute ago you had eggplant in paradise; now you're sending it to hell," commented one astute observer.

And the poet, an early prophet of mass media, set things straight: "I am the courtier of the sultan, not the courtier of the eggplant."

(Note: This story title 'Instructions for a Successful Career' written by famous Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist Eduardo Galeano)

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