THE BOOK OF
FROGS
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE BOOK OF GLORY
Pasteur invents microorganismsNot all Frog literature is funny
Chapter 26
Another great Frog gift to the world,
2Though not as great as food and wine and microorganisms, of course,
3Was rFrench literature,
4sWhich was great because it was the Frogs who had invented philosophy and poetry and tragedy and comedy.
5There was a Frog philosopher named tLa Rochefoucauld, who knew so much about life that he wrote it all down in a little book,
6In the form of asayings,
7Which said it all so well that there’s no point in discussing it further.
8There was another Frog philosopher named bPascal who knew almost as much about life as La Rochefoucauld,
9And so he also wrote it all down in a little book,
10Including the one about man being only a creed,
11The weakest in all nature,
12But, according to Pascal, that’s really okay,
13Because man is a dthinking reed,
14Which Pascal knew because it was the Frogs who had invented reason and logic,
15When eDescartes said, “Cogito ergo sum,”
16fWhich means something or other in Latin,
17Something that must explain why the Frogs have never felt any obligation to practice these interesting mental pursuits.
18Nor were these the only miraculous accomplishments of French literature.
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