OSMAR BATISTA LEAL AND THE FOX

   Osmar Batista Leal graduated himself in Pedagogy, read the fables of Esopo, told them in classroom and started to write his own fables. And then, a night, he chose to invoke the spirit of the greek fabulist and ask him the opinion about his work. A figure in the form of a fox appeared laughing loudly in the middle of the room and said:

   -I am not going to say that I liked, but I thought your little jokes are hilarious.

 (Osmar Batista Leal)

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OSMAR BATISTA LEAL AND THE DOG

  

   Osmar Batista Leal was passing in front of a house when a dog came to the gate and said:

    -I read a fable of dog that you wrote and I thought that it is no fun.

    And then Osmar Batista Leal answered:

    -Right.

    The dog was brave:

    -Right? I said that your fables of dog are no fun.

    And Osmar Batista Leal said:

    -I wrote fables of dog, but not jokes.

  (Osmar Batista Leal)
   
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THE BIRTH AND THE DEATH OF THE ART

   

   A woman and a man entered a cave. They embraced themselves and went to a corner, but they were surprised by another man. That man attacked the man with a knife of stone and killed him. The woman escaped from the murderer, ran and hid herself in another cave. Thousand of years after, historians met scribbles in the cave where the woman was hidden that were interpret as a murder.

    Some more years passed and a contest in city of Curitiba would reward the “Curitiba more beautiful”. A child that lived in an apartment in centre of that city, saw an european scenery in a television soup opera, made a drawing and earned the reward.  

   (Osmar Batista Leal) 

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THE THICK BOOK

   A blind old man stayed seated in a square with a thick book in his hand. When the people stopped near him, he opened his book and quoted a fragment of a page. A child that saw him for first time was wondered:

   -How do you get to read if you are blind?

   And then the blind old man answered:

   -I lost my vision, but memorized this whole book.  

 (Osmar Batista Leal) 

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SCRIBBLES ON THE WALL

     Two birds sat on an electric cable and started to observe the urban visual pollution. One of them said:

   -Since the prehistory the men already marked into the caves. But today the caverns became cities and we can to see two kinds of scribbles.

   The other bird looked attentively to the city and answered:

   -I see only the same scribble everywhere.

   And then the first bird continued:

   -I see the scribbles that are made on the walls by the poor ones and the marketing art that is produced by the rich ones.

  Osmar Batista Leal

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Lord of the machines

    

     A man had a lunch with his wife and his five sons around a table full of food, but the teenage son complained:

     -The food is with strange taste.

     And the man said to his son:

     -Instead of complaining, you should thank the Lord of the machines.

     And then the teenage son answered:

     -Thank Lord of the machines for the strange taste in my food.

(Osmar Batista Leal)

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Father proves to his son that Lord of the flies exists

   A fly had a lunch with his wife and his five sons around a table full of food,  but the teenage son complained:

   -This food is with strange taste.

   And then Father fly answered him:

   -Instead of complaining, you should thank the Lord of the flies for the food…

   But the little fly continued:

   -I don’t believe in Lord of the flies.

   Father fly stopped to eat immediately, approached his son, flew with him to a garbage dump and asked:

   -Who does leave all that food for our economy?

   The teenage son answered:

   -The men.

   But father fly asked another question:

   -And what do you think that takes them to leave a lot of food if many of them are starved?   

  (Osmar Batista Leal)

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