Nasrudin in the Land of Fools

<p>This fourth book of Nasrudin tales from the acclaimed storyteller Tahir Shah concerns the trials and tribulations of the inimitable wise fool's life in the Land of Fools.</p><p> </p><p>Some Nasrudin stories are overtly hilarious while others are downright odd yet all of them get the listener's brain working in new ways.</p><p> </p><p>For a thousand years stories such as these have been relied upon - from Morocco in the west to China in the east - to impart wisdom while challenging conventional thinking.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p class=ql-align-center>GENIUS MACHINE</p><p> </p><p>Nasrudin invented a device to turn fools into geniuses and geniuses into fools.</p><p>As word of the machine spread Foolslanders hurried to the capital and stood in line.</p><p>Paying their money some of the dimmest fools in existence became geniuses in the blink of an eye.</p><p>But one at a time the geniuses queued up again to be turned back into fools.</p><p>Nasrudin asked one of them why he wanted to be turned back.</p><p>'I always wanted to be a genius' he said 'but now I have experienced it I realize it's so much less exhausting to go through life as a fool.'</p><p> </p>