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The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable.

Clifford Geertz
Mother, Brother, Horse
Clifford Geertz (1988). “Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author”, p.8, Stanford University Press
The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable.