Re: the Simmering Frog
From the new novel about Ayman :
“He remembered a story his father had told him one day in their home on the poor side of Maadi, on the banks of the Nile. His mother’s family discussed radical politics, and was active in the revolutionary changes taking place in secular Egypt. He had never forgotten the day at the dinner table when his father had asked him if he knew how to cook a frog. Ayman was only 11 at the time and had no answer. Without even interrupting his eating the dessert Ayman’s mother had prepared, his father had coached, “You place him in a pan of cold water on the stove, then you turn on the heat. By the time the water is hot enough that the frog knows it is in danger, it is too weak and dulled by the heat to leap out.”