The tortoise told his friend the fish that he (the tortoise) just returned to the lake after a walk on the land. 'Of course,' the fish said, 'You mean swimming.'  The tortoise tried to explain that one couldn't swim on the land, that it was solid and that one walked on it.  But the fish insisted that there could be nothing like it, that it must be liquid like his lake, with waves, and that one must be able to dive and swim there.'\n\n Moral: Words are symbols representing things and ideas known to us.  Ignorant people get stuck in words like an elephant in the mud.  

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