| Bec & Cäül
The Labyrinth has produced surprisingly few philosophers of any note. Perhaps the best known was the Wise One of the Plains, whose chief contribution to knowledge was the theory that the length of time spent thinking about any one subject was in inverse proportion to the number of eggs you could eat. The philosopher Bec later elaborated this theory by pointing out that the number of eggs you could eat varied according to the size of each egg, and that a Twark's egg (for Twark, see page 54) was much smaller than the egg of the Klutton (see fig. 129d on page 81). However, it was not until another great goblin thinker by the name of Cäül developed both ideas that the patter of Goblin Philosophy was set for future generations. Cäül pointed out that neither the Twark's egg nor the Klutton's egg are particularly nice to eat (the Twark's egg tastes of corduroy trousers while the Klutton's has more of a worsted flavour). Thus it could be induced that thinking about anything for any period was a complete waste of time. This theory became immediate popular with all goblins, and Bec and Cäül were able to devote their declining years to knitting (see page 44) and harassing the small extinct mammal pictured on page 46.
|
