Come out, come out.

The sky in this one refused to translate.

I had the image in my head and only afterwards came across an Aesop's that coincided to the letter. Something about a fisherman who tried piping the fish out of the water. When that failed, he picked up his pole and had success. The Moral? Hey lazyass, stop daydreaming and pick up an implement. A lesson I might do well to learn.

So, the myth behind Aesop. He was a slave in Greece, perhaps Ethiopian. He was horribly ugly and hunchbacked. He was employed as a tutor. He earned his freedom and may have worked for Croesus ("as rich as") as an emissary. His smarts got him out of many a pickle. Except for the last, when the Delphians, either tired of his wits or greedy for a sum of Croesan gold he was said to have refused to hand over, pitched him off a cliff.

It's never been said that the Greeks were fair to their geniuses.