Fable of the Keyhole, 1870

Ancient Fable:


Three men, one under the influence of alcohol, another steeped in opium, a third intoxicated by marihuana, arrived one night at the closed gates of a Persian city.

“Let us break down the gates!” roared the drunkard.

“Nay,” said the opium eater. “Let us rest until morning, when we may enter through the wide-flung portals.”

“You may do as you wish,” was the decision of the omnipotent marihuana addict. “But I shall stroll through the keyhole.”

– The Literary Digest , October 24, 1936

 

 

Three men at the Fountain of Sultan Ahmed III in Istanbul, Turkey by Pascal Sebah 1870