[lit-ideas] Re: Monty Python Upstaged by Reality
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 16:54:00 -0700
on 7/1/04 4:47 PM, Andy Amago at aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Or it could be that sheep in an agrarian society are as valuable
> as cars are here. It does seem weird that they would have to smuggle them.
>
They are evading an import tax, five percent of value on all goods except
charitable donations. BTW, small fact about Iranian sheep, learned when I
was in that part of the world: shepherds in Iran *lead* their sheep. Read
all biblical references to shepherds and sheep with this in mind.
David Ritchie
Portland, Oregon
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