Proverbial Fairy Tales: Wolf! Wolf! – The Explanation

Once upon a time when the lad returned uneaten questions arose. If the lad wasn’t eaten, how were the town folk going to explain the statue and the truly tall tales they were telling to the tourists?

The town’s scientist came to the rescue explaining that if they only knew science the way he did they would see that when light hit the lad’s chiral polypeptide lipid loving amino acids they’d order the polymerization end to end bringing back together again the lad as if nothing happened. Our beloved scientist patiently lectured the uneducated town folk (since they patiently listened) on how science had proven over and over again that stuff that couldn’t happen happened all the time.

Although the town folk didn’t buy his tale (deep down anyway), they were glad to have something to tell those tourists who wouldn’t shut their mouths when they were told nonsense. Besides – town folk being town folk – once they realized that they were just too stupid to understand, what they couldn’t understand previously suddenly made sense so everyone could go back to living happily ever after again.

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Denise offers the prompt word “order” for this week’s Six Sentence Stories.

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Author: Frank Hubeny

I enjoy walking, poetry and short prose as well as taking pictures with my phone.

26 thoughts on “Proverbial Fairy Tales: Wolf! Wolf! – The Explanation”

  1. This scientist sounds a bit like Dr. James Tour, except that Dr. Tour knows what he is talking about.

    And Dr. Tour isn’t like so many scientists in our day who note “how science had proven over and over again that stuff that couldn’t happen happened all the time.”

    Scientists should spend a bit more time telling us what we don’t know instead of what we do know because there is far more material in that realm.

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    1. I like Dr. James Tour. I wish more scientists were like him. Since I know little biology, I suspect I learned some of the words I put into this scientist’s mouth from Dr. Tour especially the word “chiral”.

      The scientist in this tale, unlike Dr. Tour, is just running his mouth expecting to be believed no matter what he says.

      Blessings and thank you, Chris!

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      1. You’re welcome, Frank, and thank you for your reply.

        The scientist in your tale is like so many today. Throw enough fancy words in and most people will believe almost anything.

        God’s blessings…

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  4. fun (continuation) of the Wolf saga!

    the thing I enjoy about science (or medicine or the law or any other specialized profession) is the language they develop that makes it (the theory or the disease or the case for the prosecution) different how the average person expresses themselves.

    “The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side!” (Scarecrow upon receiving a diploma from the Wizard of Oz)

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