Crack – crack – crack!
We’re cracking nuts!
In November, they’re dried and ready to reveal their secrets. Who knows what lies inside a nut before it’s cracked? It’s like a guessing game.
Hopefully, it isn’t empty but instead contains a kernel – the answer to the riddle.
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In fairy tales, one sometimes finds gossamer-thin, gorgeous dresses for real princesses inside the nut.
But now I’m reminded of a story in which a young man opens a magic nut that’s supposed to foretell his future and finds himself very disappointed. He believes it to be empty because it’s almost hollow and instead of a solid kernel contains only a small quantity of a black, crumbly substance.
As it turns out, however, this dark substance symbolises the fertile, black, crumbly soil that he was to possess a few years later as a wealthy farmer.
Yes, symbolic clues, like dreams and prophecies, can often only be explained in retrospect.
Incidentally, in metaphorical usage, to crack a nut can also mean to solve a problem.
Oh, dear! A lot of uncracked nuts would then portend a lot of unsolved problems still to come…
Perhaps one could go to a shop and buy some nuts that are already cracked. They would be a bit more expensive, but our problems would already be solved…?!
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