¶ Divide and Conquer Sequence
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RBF Definitions
"He says, ‘I would like to have you around to help fight with me, and I would like to have you around to go hunting with me, and you are a pretty good guy so I am going to make you Duke of Hill ‘A,’ and you Duke of Hill ‘B.’ But I’m going to watch you two to make sure that you don’t get together and gang up on me. And you have to pay me tribute because, naturally, there’ll be a lot of stuff coming in here.’
"They found he had a pretty good system going but then he found that there were a lot of little people around who were not fighters at all, who began to steal his animals and make a lot of trouble for him. They began telling Duke A about Duke B and plotting against the king.
"So the king brings in these characters and tells one of them, ‘You’re making a lot of trouble around here. You are much too bright. I am going to cut your head off.’
"The man says, ‘You had better not cut my head off,’ and the king said ‘why?’
"‘Because I happen to understand the language your enemy is talking over the hill, and you don’t.’
"‘you have a pretty good idea there. You report to me everyday what my enemy is saying over the hill and your head is going to stay on and you are going to do something you never did before-- you are going to eat every day. How do you like that?’
¶ Citations
- RBF Univ. of Chicago. etc.
