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1991 El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos),
Fábula. National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh. Oil on canvas,
photographically reproduced as a postcard. Sent by Gert Jan van Dijk.
Gert rightly asks "Which fable?"
One possibility might be the Bidpay fable about the busybody bird who
bothers the chimpanzees trying to blow a glow-worm into a flame. The apes
eventually grab the intrusive bird and choke it. At any rate, one of the two
men seems to have a flame in a protected surrounding, to be blowing on it,
and to be about to light a small candle from it. Another man and a monkey
look on.
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