THE RATTRAP
–Selma Lagerlöf
A ‘philosophical’ rattrap seller
Once there was a man who made rattraps of wire and went around selling them. However, occasionally he had to turn to begging and stealing. He looked at the world with vengeance for being unkind to him. He entertained himself with the idea of the world being “nothing but a big rattrap” where the riches act as baits to lure and trap people for life.
Crofter’s thirty kronor bills stolen
One evening the r…
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