a thread in the eye of a needle.

Unrelated tajuk, just something i heard yesterday.
A very gifted and talented man, who had a dozen of needles, stuck each one of them in the ground. Then, he stood up, and threw the needles; each one entered the eye of the previous one until he finished the dozen without missing even one of them. However, the Abbasid caliph, Haroon ar-Rashid heard of that talented man, and he ordered him to come to his court. Then, he ordered him to show him his talent. The man successfully executed the task. Upon completing the show, the Caliph rewarded the man with one hundred dinars, and ordered him to be whipped one hundred lashes. His courtiers were surprised of his deed and they asked him: Why did you reward him and punish him at the same time? The Caliph said: I rewarded him for his talent and punished him for wasting his talent in such useless act.
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  • Au Hasard Balthazar
  • L’Argent
  • Band of Outsider
  • The Kid with a Bike
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  • My Name is Red
  • The Museum of Innocence
  • The White Castle
  • Snow
  • The Naive and Sentimental Novelist
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  • The Trial
  • America
  • The Castle
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  • The Invention of Solitude
  • RMR LAS letters
  • Girl Interrupted
  • What I Talk About when I Talk About Running
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  • Purification of the Heart
  • The Poor Man’s Book of Assistance
  • All of A’s books
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  • Mon Cherie
  • It. 
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