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Re: The Gilded Cage

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vijayalu • January 20, 2003 


Dear sir and members,

There is still a worst case scenario than a gilded cage; In kerala it seems
they adopt a peculiar way to catch big rats in the fields. It seems they are
clever creatures and do not enter a trap with a door!. So how to catch them?
So one has to be cleverer than this great creation!

It seems they keep a spacious box like thing which is  open at the entrance.
A half burnt coconut is hung on to a string at height which this fellow
cannot jump and grab. Then they place wooden plank like ladder at a level
and a wheel at the bottom in the center. So as the guy tries to climb this
plank and about reach the lovely smelling coconut crunchy the wheel turns
and the plank moves down just at the time the fellow gets the smell and just
a lick of it!. I believe this ordeal goes on through out the night and
finally falls crippled .


Even if the gates are open to the abode , man makes every attempt to satisfy
his unending ephemeral pleasures  and finally falls unable to redeem
himself. The story goes on and on!

Thanks for the patience
VK Vijayaraghavan
Bahrain



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