"The Profit" by Kehlogg Albran parodied Gibran popular book

Submitted by Ben van de Polder (United States), Oct 30, 2007 at 10:12

For a hilarious parody on Gibran's popular work "The Prophet" readers should go to "The Profit" by Kehlogg Albran. http://rsidd.online.fr/profit/index.html

Here a sampling which also serves as an appropriate tribute to Gibran's artsy aspirations as the bearded bard he fancies himself to be:

WHAT of Facial Hair, a nubile lad asked.

The Master replied:
As maturity encroaches upon adolescence, as the child becomes the man (or ugly woman) he (or she) begins to grow first the downy fuzz and, subsequently, the rich, wiry outcropping that has come to be called Beard.
It is no small coincidence that a great scribe or teller of tales is called by the similar word Bard.
Many an otherwise canny person has fallen upon troubled times by confusing these words.
For it is true that a Bard can have a Beard, but a Beard cannot have a Bard.
One can shave a Beard, and, for that matter, one can shave a Bard.
But having shaved a Beard, it no longer exists.
Whereas having shaved a Bard you continue to have a Bard.
A Beardless Bard.

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