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1995 – Lajos Parti Nagy, Fox Affair at Sunset (lit. "Fox Object at Sunset"), a postmodern death poem with nostalgic irony. [11] 1998 – Elizabeth Hand, Last Summer at Mars Hills: An Indian boy has magical amulet which allows him change into a fox. 1999 – Kij Johnson, The Fox Woman, in which one of the protagonists is a fox woman named Kitsune.
The fox refuses such help on the grounds that the insects have already gorged themselves on her blood and hardly trouble her now, but they would inevitably be succeeded by new swarms if removed. The fable is mentioned by Aristotle in his work on Rhetoric (II.20) as an example of Aesop's way of teaching a political lesson through a humorous example.
In the original essay ("a fox who all his life sought, unsuccessfully, to be a hedgehog") FiveThirtyEight: Nate Silver: Its logo is a fox, alluding to Archilochus' saying [7] Warren Buffett: William Thorndike Sigmund Freud: Peter Gay "a fox who at times affected a hedgehog's clothing" McDonald's: Tom Gara "firing multiple shots in all ...
"There are no atheists in foxholes" is an aphorism used to suggest that times of extreme stress or fear can prompt belief in a higher power. [1] In the context of actual warfare, such a sudden change in belief has been called a foxhole conversion.
William Caxton (pictured centre-right), whose translation of Aesop's Fables was a probable source for the tale. A probable source of the tale is Petrus Alfonsi's Disciplina clericalis, which has the same three motifs: the rash promise of the husbandman; the wolf mistaking the moon for cheese; and the wolf that descends into the well via a bucket, thereby trapping himself and freeing the fox. [1]
The history of mentalities, from the French term histoire des mentalités (lit. ' history of attitudes '), is an approach to cultural history which aims to describe and analyze the ways in which historical people thought about, interacted with, and classified the world around them, as opposed to the history of particular events, or economic trends.
The name Fox later was derived from a French mistake during the colonial era: hearing a group of Indians identify as "Fox", the French applied what was a clan name to the entire tribe who spoke the same language by calling them "les Renards." Later the English and Anglo-Americans adopted the French name by using its translation in English as "Fox."
The Fox is a traditional folk song (Roud 131) from England. It is also the subject of at least two picture books, The Fox Went out on a Chilly Night: An Old Song , illustrated by Peter Spier and Fox Went out on a Chilly Night , by Wendy Watson.