From Ahq:
Thanks a lot, chap, for your exhaustive explanation.
First up, I should apologize for having exchanged letters in "bedaub". I must agree that I am dyslexic.
About your interpretation of the white eggs laid by the black hen, I also must agree that "we can philosophy a lot on proverbs" because most often proverbs are metaphorical and metaphores are not rational processes like 1 + 1 makes 2. However if I rightly catch your say, only the white colour of eggs is to be taken into account, symbolic for "good quality". I presume then that the black hen is not black just by chance. It should be black as opposed to the white eggs. Black must be the symbol of something which is belittled, as the black sheep (Fr. brebis galeuse) in a herd of white sheep. That is of a great comfort to me as it brings me to think that good-for-nothing people (for instance dyslexic guys) could makes good quality deeds. But come to think of it, I've recently seen on the telly that in a Central Africa country - I can't remember which one - albinos were mistreated and pulled apart from the population for being under-beings. For sure, here the metaphoric sense is working backwards. That would confirm you were right in saying that we can philosophy a lot about that issue.
Thanks for your wishes and a merry second Christmas day to you, with as a gift "two turttle doves sent to you by your true love".
Thanks a lot for philosohying on my topic, see that both of you, "Gee" and yourself, are quite interested in it and it seems to me to have woken up a kind of challenging spirit in you!? You must be good friends and I guess you have even something to do with teaching, haven't you?
Keep on your good sense of humour!
Hope to read you soon.
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28 Dec. 2008