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The insanity of an insane

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  By Aafiyat Nazar In a city, an insane person was looking in the sky with a paper telescope while running away. He was shouting, "Take me away from the insane and the ignorant”. A wicked man asked the insane: “Where the ignorant are and what is ignorance? Hearing this, the madman stopped and had a frenzy of laughter. Photo credit: freepik Meanwhile, he replied, “Ignorance is the name of a city and the ignorant are its inhabitants”. Hearing this conversation, people from nearby gathered around him and outburst with huge laughter. Gradually a large crowd assembled and all of them began to make fun of his words. Then another man said: “Where does the road to this city of ignorance go? The madman gasped and said that you are already in this city of ignorance. And you have all come in through different doors. Another man teased the madman and asked, “How many gates does the city of ignorance have? The insane retorted “It has thousands of paths and with thousands of names, throug