The tortoise at the Olympics
Everyone knows the three Latin goals of the Olympics: citius, altius, fortius! That is, “faster, higher, stronger.” Remember, it is not only since the 1896 Athens Olympics that human beings have set such mad ambitions for themselves. From the very beginning of their existence, they have thought of these as desirable, as fulfilment, as success. And not only humans—animals too must have learnt, at the cost of life itself, that these matter