Dialogue Between a Young Faun and a Knight
or On the Superabundance of the Inner Life
A knight who had travelled over most of the earth, and had lived in many different lands, found himself one day walking by a creek in the heart of a forest.
Since he had been riding his horse for quite some time and since he felt rather tired, he decided to take some rest under the shadow of a big tree and eat some of the provisions he had collected at a nearby village the night before.
He was reflecting on the words of a fellow traveller he had met at the tavern a few days earlier, when the chirping of the birds and the rustling of the creek were broken by a not so distant sound, the same sound rocks make when they are thrown into the water.
Quickly, he takes the bow and the arrow and cautiously turns left and right to see if there was any looming danger, or perhaps an animal that he could hunt and cook in the evening. He moves in the direction of the sound coming from the bank of the stream, which was beyond some bushes.
Soon he catches a glimpse of the paw of some animal, appearing like the one of a goat.
“I’ll make a good roast with it tonight!”, he thinks to himself.
As he drew near to it and was ready to shoot the animal with his bow, he was…
