By S.I. Rosenbaum, NationSwell, January 13, 2020
There’s a story about three men hauling stones that the artist Ben Shahn famously retells in his 1957 book, “The Shape of Content.” The story goes like this: As the men are toiling, a nameless passerby asks each of the three “in what work they were engaged.” As Shahn tells it, the three men each give three very different replies:
“The first said, ‘I toil from sunup to sundown and all I receive for my pains is a few francs a day.’
“The second said, ‘I’m glad enough to wheel this wheelbarrow for I have been out of work for many months and I have a family to support.’
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