4147.
The crow, having explained the tic-tac-toe game, fell silent but just then a
pigeon who had been listening to him from an overhanging branch felt
emboldened to put his two cents in and said, “If a game of tic-tac-toe was
played against Alexander the Great, the great military tactician, how could it
happen then, that he would lose the game rather than tie it?”
4148.
That is just the way it is with those pigeons, always trying to needlessly
complicate a simple narrative story. They mean well, and they only want to
clarify certain ideas, but in the end they render a simple conversation
meaningless.
4149.
The Pigeon’s question baffled the Crow for a short time. But then, gathering
his wits about him, he replied, “You see, a tic-tac-toe drawing is a work of
art in the first place, and only secondly an historical document.
4150.
As a drawing it should be understood only as a metaphor, and need not conform to the
requirements of some strict historical dissertation. As a matter of fact there
is a prerequisite for the “artistic defeat” of Alexander the Great in an oratorio
by Handel.
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