It’s telling that the Fool of William Shakespeare’s renowned tragedy “King Lear” comes off the wisest of the bunch while Lear himself, not to mention several others, come across as true fools. Such was, generally speaking, true then as it is now and a testament to Shakespeare’s insights into the human condition.
Or, as the Clash so famously sang in “Garageland,” “The truth is only known by guttersnipes.” Sentiments relayed earlier in the Beatles’ “The Fool on the Hill” for that matter.
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