The Ants and the Pen by Idries Shah
The Ant and the Pen - book illustration - The Ant seeing the pen writing in fine, black strokes
The Ant and the Pen - book illustration - The Ant dancing around the squiggles of the pen
The Ant and the Pen - book illustration - The Ant sharing his excited ideas to the first ant he saw
The Ant and the Pen - book illustration - Scientific ant not so impressed at Ant's emotions running away with him
The Ant and the Pen - book illustration - The ants first discover fingers are also responsible for the squiggles
The Ant and the Pen - book illustration - Ants extending their area of understanding with scientific scrutiny of the pen and the fingers
The Ant and the Pen - book illustration - Exploring ant scrambling all over the area
The Ant and the Pen - book illustration - Ant being congratulated by another ant for his powers of ant observation

The Ants and the Pen by Idries Shah

An exquisite satire on human scientific endeavour, The Ants and the Pen uses the intrepid but ultimately tunnel-visioned ant to illustrate that information is not equal to knowledge.

Adventurous ants discover the enigmatic and exquisite squiggles of a pen. Emboldened, they push on to discover the fingers, hand, arms and legs pushing the pen. But what use is all of this feverish discovery if they miss the entire point of the pen and its squiggles?

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