Questa immagine del 1912 di J M Gleeson illustra il granchio di Kipling che giocava con il mare. All'inizio, il maggiore mago preparò la Terra e i mari. Chiamò gli animali e ordinò a ciascuno di giocare per essere se stesso. Poi venne l'uomo, portando la sua figlia, e mentre il mago prometteva che tutti gli animali obbediscono all'uomo, il granchio scivolò via, giurando di prendere istruzioni da nessuno. Solo la bambina lo vide andare. Quando tutti gli altri animali avevano ricevuto i loro ordini, il mago si recò in giro per la terra per controllare ciò che stavano facendo, e per girare le zone che h
3667 x 5100 px | 31 x 43,2 cm | 12,2 x 17 inches | 300dpi
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14 maggio 2022
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This 1912 image by J M Gleeson illustrates Kipling’s The crab that played with the sea. In the very beginning, the Eldest Magician made ready the Earth and the Seas. He called the animals and instructed each one to play at being itself. Then the Man came, bringing his little daughter, and while the magician was promising that all animals obey the Man, the Crab slipped away, vowing to take instructions from nobody. Only the little girl saw him go. When all the other animals had been given their orders, the Magician went round the earth to check what they were doing, and to turn the areas they had disturbed into mountains, deserts, marshes and islands. By the Perak River he met the Man, who complained that while animals and earth were obedient the Sea was not; it alternately flooded his house and stranded his canoe. With the little girl they boarded the canoe and were swept out to sea. All the inhabitants of Earth and Moon denied that they were responsible. The little girl told how she had seen the Crab escape and described him. They went to Pusat Tasek, the Heart of the Sea, with a hollow to the centre of the earth and a tree bearing magic nuts. There they found Pau Amma the monster crab, who had been causing the flood and ebb when he sank or surfaced. The Magician called him up and he tore off one of the nuts as he came. The daughter picked it up. The Magician caused his shell to fall off and Pau Amma begged for it back. He bargained with them and was made small enough to hide under stones and weeds, but must lose his shell yearly. The girl gave him her scissors so that he could make holes in coconuts. The man complained at having to row home, and the Fisherman in the moon agreed to tow the sea in and out in tides. Pau Amma’s children live on the shore and can climb trees to eat coconuts. They hate being caught and taken home and will nip you with their scissors. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He
