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The Story of Vook and the Great Big Whale

Chris Farmer RSS / 23.07.2011. u 12:48

ow, a long time ago, in beginning of the Age of Information, there lived a boy named Vook. He had a nice shiny suit of clothes, always brushed his teeth before bed, and was very proud of the things that he could say.

Everyone across the land would smile and beam when they heard him speak. He could say "no" when most folk would have said "yes." He would not just play with anyone - and he would tell them the reasons. Vook was the apple of his Papa B.'s eye. Papa B. would send him out into the world and ask him what he saw. And Vook, proud and pleased, would come back and tell him all about it.

But Vook was a very stubborn boy and would not change his mind once it was set. If people asked him, he would sometimes say: "I don't wanna" and hold his breath. Papa B. told him his stubborn head would one day get into trouble, but Vook would not listen.

Now one day, Vook, while traveling far and wide, came across a Great Big Whale. The Whale was very large and, above the sea, the skies were filled with little bluebirds tweeting and chirping above the waters where the Whale would swim. Sometimes the birds would lift the Great Big Whale out of the water by little strings held in their beaks. When that happened, you knew something very important was happening.

Vook stopped to listen to the birds. They chirped and tweeted and, all of a sudden, Vook thought he heard them tweet his name! He thought they were saying things about him. He thought they were laughing at him and his shiny suit and white teeth. Vook turned his boat around and ran back home.

When he arrived back home, he called all the whale hunters of the land to seek out the Great Big Whale. And he summoned the hunters to take aim at the birds. He said this Great Big Whale and some of its many birds were "unpleasant" and he decided to take out the bad ones.

The birds, once they heard, began to follow Vook around. They asked him what he was doing. They asked why he hated them so. They wanted him to answer. But Vook said, "I don't wanna," and did not tell. He would not talk with any of the birds.

When Papa B. heard what little Vook was doing, he called him over. "What are you doing to these birds?" he asked. "These birds seem little but they are very powerful, and they are very loud, and there are too many of them."

"I will stop them," Vook blustered. "They are mean to me."

Vook did not know that the birds were very friendly with the world's gentle winds. He did not know that their voices carried from one side of the earth to the other upon the winds, and that once they began to chirp, no one could silence them for long.

But Papa B. wanted the Great Big Whale to be on his side. He did not want little Vook to bother it and poke it with sticks. "You may go after the birds and whale," he said, "but if you anger the Great Big Whale, I will let it swallow you up."

And Vook did not wanna. He stood by the sea in his shiny suit, holding Papa B.'s suit of armor, and shook his little fist at the sea and the birds and the Great Big Whale. But he was very, very quiet. He did not say a word.

And the birds tweeted and chirped and flew away, leaving only the sound of their voices behind.

 

 

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Illustration: From http://globalvoicesonline.org/2011/07/18/serbia-disgruntled-community-vs-disgruntled-politician-on-twitter

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Chris Farmer Chris Farmer 12:52 23.07.2011

Last Post

Dear Readers,

Yes, I hear you. Enough about this already, you say.

This is the last post on the subject. I just could not help myself....

CBF
highshalfbooze highshalfbooze 13:44 23.07.2011

Re: Last Post

Yes, it is humiliating. Not just for
Vook
.
Thank you.
Chris Farmer Chris Farmer 13:53 23.07.2011

Re: Last Post

highshalfbooze
Yes, it is humiliating. Not just for
Vook
.
Thank you.

Unless you happen to be Vook, I should not see it as humiliating in any way. We are each responsible for our own individual boneheadedness, but it does not confer the same onto anyone else...

highshalfbooze highshalfbooze 14:19 23.07.2011

Re: Last Post

We are each responsible for our own individual boneheadedness


Unless that bonehead is not a minister of foreign affair, and represent his country to the world.
I know that he is ignorant. But...
Chris Farmer Chris Farmer 14:41 23.07.2011

Re: Last Post

highshalfbooze
We are each responsible for our own individual boneheadedness


Unless that bonehead is not a minister of foreign affair, and represent his country to the world.
I know that he is ignorant. But...


The beauty of representative government is that we do not get to vote for each idiot who gets appointed by presidents, prime ministers, or cabinets - we are just stuck with them.

No one voted for the Minister of Foreign Affairs. No one asked us who we think would be best for the job. If they did, I am sure we could make a few better choices....



highshalfbooze highshalfbooze 15:25 23.07.2011

Re: Last Post

No one voted for the Minister of Foreign Affairs.


No one voted for commoner eather. In this country people vote just for party and party policy. The party leadership placed their relatives and friends to the commoner, ministers, cabinets, public company executive..
It is already bad here...
Jukie Jukie 19:48 23.07.2011

Re: Last Post

Chris Farmer

Unless you happen to be Vook,...

I am one degree of separation from Vook on FB
or is it called two degrees of separation?
me - someone else - Vook
Chris Farmer Chris Farmer 20:42 23.07.2011

Re: Last Post

Jukie
I am one degree of separation from Vook on FB
or is it called two degrees of separation?
me - someone else - Vook


It would seem to be the same degree of separation Vook is with Reality... Actually maybe you are closer.
fantomatsicna fantomatsicna 13:37 23.07.2011

Vook or no Vook

I don't mind the posts that make me laugh
Chris Farmer Chris Farmer 13:58 23.07.2011

Re: Vook or no Vook

fantomatsicna
I don't mind the posts that make me laugh


Thanks! I was thinking a collection of these fables might be interesting...
bluestar bluestar 14:23 23.07.2011

..




"Stand up, Chuck, let 'em see ya." --Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden, to Missouri state Sen. Chuck Graham, who is in a wheelchair
Chris Farmer Chris Farmer 14:26 23.07.2011

Re: ..

bluestar



"Stand up, Chuck, let 'em see ya." --Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden, to Missouri state Sen. Chuck Graham, who is in a wheelchair


Oops!



skyspoter skyspoter 21:17 23.07.2011

As an American Citizen

in Serbia you don’t have rights to write about our Serbian Foreign minister, regardless of my support or otherwise for him.
You wouldn’t like it if I did the same for Hilary Clinton.
Chris Farmer Chris Farmer 22:12 23.07.2011

Re: As an American Citizen

skyspoter
in Serbia you don’t have rights to write about our Serbian Foreign minister, regardless of my support or otherwise for him.
You wouldn’t like it if I did the same for Hilary Clinton.

Please go ahead talk about whoever you want. But do not presume you have the right to tell me (or anyone for that matter) what can be written about and by whom.
beauty.queen beauty.queen 22:56 23.07.2011

Re: As an American Citizen

The beauty of representative government is that we do not get to vote for each idiot who gets appointed by presidents, prime ministers, or cabinets - we are just stuck with them.


bingo!
srdjan.pajic srdjan.pajic 05:54 24.07.2011

Re: As an American Citizen

skyspoter
As an American Citizen in Serbia you don’t have rights to write about our Serbian Foreign minister, regardless of my support or otherwise for him.



And why not, if I may ask? Is that illegal?
mikimedic mikimedic 13:12 24.07.2011

Re: As an American Citizen

Please go ahead talk about whoever you want. But do not presume you have the right to tell me (or anyone for that matter) what can be written about and by whom.


Well, I almost flunked a test from the US Government (or some similar class, I don't remember anymore) when I dared to write negatively of the then President Bush.

'Foreign exchange student attending US high school should keep his thoughts on the US President for himself' - I was told by my teacher.

But really Chris - your obsession with Vuk is really something.

I mean - man, get a life.
Chris Farmer Chris Farmer 14:09 24.07.2011

Re: As an American Citizen

mikimedic
Please go ahead talk about whoever you want. But do not presume you have the right to tell me (or anyone for that matter) what can be written about and by whom.


Well, I almost flunked a test from the US Government (or some similar class, I don't remember anymore) when I dared to write negatively of the then President Bush.

'Foreign exchange student attending US high school should keep his thoughts on the US President for himself' - I was told by my teacher.

But really Chris - your obsession with Vuk is really something.

I mean - man, get a life.


I am so glad you posted this comment. I was beginning to worry.

I was afraid that you might have come down with a case of Understanding.

Glad to be wrong about THAT.

CBF
petar_p petar_p 16:42 24.07.2011

ovaj tekst je socinjenije

otprilike na nivou nizih razreda osnovne skole... Sem toga, ne razumem, jel ovo odbrana tvitera od napada srpske diplomatije? Nije valjda da sad i tviter i slobodu interneta ugrozavamo?

Arhiva

   

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