"Now listen," said Nasrudin. "First teach me to swim. Only then will I go near the river. How dangerous it is! If something goes wrong, who will be responsible? Only when I learned to swim would I go near the river. But is there any way to learn to swim without entering the river? So Mulla Nasrudin never learned to swim. It was too dangerous. It was too silly. A person, a learned person, a...