4139. Otis and
the Rooster were confused by the crow’s question, and they said, “What do we
mean by what?” “This thing you are scratching on the ground with the lines, the
Xs, and the Os,” said the crow.
4140. “This,”
replied the Rooster, “is a game of tic-tac-toe, and it does not have any
meaning except that three Os in a row, or three Xs in a row wins the game. “Yes,”
replied the crow, “any idiot knows what a tic-tac-toe game is, but my question
concerns what your game means.”
4141. “How
could it possibly mean something?” said Otis. “How could it not,” replied the
crow. Then, after an awkward silence during which the crow paced back and forth
in front of the wolf and the rooster, with his wings folded behind his back, he
said…
4142.
I would say that the tic-tac-toe game symbolizes an event in the life of
Alexander the Great. I recall that when Alexander marched his armies into the
far reaches of India he met there a Holy Man sitting under a tree.
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