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The fable is about a group of ravens who defend the musty old corpse of a grammarian from the other ravens, even though there is almost nothing left of it to eat. They are continuously distracted by shiny objects on the corpse. They loudly proclaim that the corpse is in perfect condition, and a wonderful source of food and treasure. Eventually the ravens on the musty corpse starve to death, but none of the other ravens notice, having moved on to feast on the intellectually more stimulating carcass of a mathematician.
