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ALLEGORY: THE WOMAN AND THE OCTOPUS AND THE THREE JUDGES.

The woman loved snorkeling in the reef, she begins her descent.
While spear fishing she found a clever octopus stuck in a fisherman’s net.
The octopus was trapped in the net along the coral shelf reef.
The octopus said, “For all that is good and great please help me.”
The woman said, “I will help you out, but only if you promise not to eat me.”
The octopus said, “I promise I will not eat you, please just release me.”
When the woman released it, the octopus said, “Woman I am so very hungry,
I have been trapped in that net for two weeks with no fresh source of meat.”
The woman said, “There are plenty of dumb fish in this sea, go out and eat.”
The octopus said, “No I don’t eat fish. They taste so salty, and you look so sweet.”
The inquisitive fish around them fled. The woman was left alone with the octopus.
The octopus pounced on her chest. The octopus said, “I’m going to eat you all up.”
The woman said, “How unjust are you, to I who saved your life?”
The octopus said, “Shut up, I don’t care what you think and I don’t care for you human types.”
She said, “But I took you for such a noble octopus, one of morals and style,
You are probably right, but just to be sure let us consult the first three judges we find in the wild.“
“Only because I am so just.” The octopus agreed, a bargain was struck, a deal created.
The woman and the octopus would go out and find three judges to adjudicate it.

The first judge they came across was a large seaweed collective.
The woman said, “Listen seaweed, we need your unbiased perspective.
Is this octopus allowed to eat me even though it promised otherwise,
We want to know, in your opinion do you find it justified?”
The seaweed said, “Humans pollute me and kill my brothers with the rudders on their boats,
You spear fishers kill the sea creatures, you are all nothing more than vicious cutthroats.
I rule for the octopus.”
The octopus was pleased. The next judge they found was a fat manatee.
They both told the facts to the judge as the judge rolled around and splashed in the sea.
The fat manatee said, “I have heard similar facts before, and every time I must agree.
Simple words mean nothing. Octopus, I see there was no contract between you and she,
Therefore, I rule for the octopus. “
The squid grinned and barred its beak. In the distance they saw their final stop.
The final judge they came across was on a desert island, it was a starving fox.
The woman said, “Good fox. This octopus and I have a certain quarrel,
You see, I released the octopus from a fisherman’s net out by the reef of coral.
I only did it on the condition that the octopus would not try to consume me,
Now the octopus wants to eat me…” The starving fox interrupted, “Listen woman, I find this all very confusing.”
The octopus said, “You dumb land creatures all have the same defining features,
Stupidity. Look all I want to know is if I am allowed to eat this human creature.”
The starving fox said, “I’m sorry, I still don’t get it. Can you explain the situation man?”
The octopus said, “Follow us to the net, hopefully once you see it you will understand.”
All three arrived at the coral reef with the fisherman’s net still fully attached,
The starving fox said, “Octopus, I still don’t understand. How did you get trapped?”
The octopus said, “Look at this you fool.” The octopus swam back into net,
The starving fox jumped into the water and wrapped the net around the octopuses head.
The octopus was outraged, he raged and he thrashed and he screamed for revenge.
The woman was upset, she said, “But fox, how will we know who was right in the end?”
The starving fox said, “Who cares who is right. Just leave it unknown.
Go away human, and from now on leave things alone."