The Library of the More-Than-Humane

Mouse
Francisco Ayala

What´s beauty? Curious, Oliver, a little mouse, wondered about it as he explored the countryside, listening to two youngsters who were passing by while they walked around with paintings and canvases.

With this question still looming in his head, he decided to travel to the city in search of an esthetic experience. The trip was long and tiresome. Finally, searching, he signed up into an art school. After graduating with honors, but still tired of not experimenting what he looked forward to, he went to a museum where he found a painting of a countryside; the colors, the trees, the flowers… It was home, the fields where he lived. That´s when the little mouse understood what beauty is.