To the Editor:
Someseven decades ago I came into possession of a palm-sized novelty figurine molded to looklike three monkeys sitting side by side. One monkey’shands coveredhis eyes, thesecond monkey’shands coveredhis ears and the third monkey’s hands were placed so that they covered his mouth. Someone said thenovelty represented “Three Wise Monkeys” and that theywere symbolic oftheold saying “see no evil, hear no evil and speakno evil.”
The story about themonkeys and the wisdom they represent, which reportedly date back to the time of Confucius, arejust…
January 29, 2014
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