Most of them are some of Thurber's lesser-known fables, not the really popular ones. It's a very different kind of thing from Thurber's Carnival.

The moral statements are very tongue-in-cheek. It takes a childlike, satirical look at the social world around us.

To an extent, Greenspan was a lesser-known quantity at the Fed (in 1987), as opposed to the Fed now having a very high degree of credibility,

Professor Mehta is a very well known scientist, but there are many lesser known scientists to whom this is happening. The bigger issue is important.

It was just kind of an omen I ended up with him. Had I not known the mare, I would have never claimed him.

Never open the door to the lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.