The Tortoise and the Hare V4
I listened to an audiobook recently that was written mostly in the second-person point of view, in future tense. That's unique. It was surprisingly good. I'm going to play with that idea here. I read the Oxford World's Classics version of the tortoise and the hare recently, translated by Laura Gibbs. It's under the section for fables about the underdog. Here it is: "The hare laughed at the tortoise's feet but the tortoise declared, "I will beat you in a race!" The hare replied, "Those are just words. Race with me, and you'll see! Who will mark out the track and serve as our umpire?" "The fox," replied the tortoise, "since she is honest and highly intelligent." When the time for the race had been decided upon, the tortoise did not delay, but immediately took off down the race-course. The hare, however, lay down to take a nap, confident in the speed of his feet. Then, when the hare eventually made his way to the finish ...