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Allusion is not Illusion
You'll pry my books off my cold, dead body. By the time you shift them all I'll be flat and dessicated.
Currently reading
Winter's Tales
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Already Dead
The Rings of Saturn
Lady Audley's Secret
Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became "People" - And How You Can Fight Back
The City, Not Long After
You Can Sketch: A Step-by-Step Guide for Absolute Beginners
Lonely Werewolf Girl
The goodreads description of how the Wisest king in all the land learns from a wandering student of philosophy the importance of silliness is rather misleading, as the whole point of this story is that the king is not wise at all; he's a pompous moron who thinks he's smart because his sycophantic courtiers flatter him and never point out his stupidity. Oh, and also because he has honorary doctorates. Since he is the wisest of men, King Kilian assumes his daughter must be the wisest of young ladies, and therefore deserving of the wisest of husbands. But nobody is wise enough! Poor Princess Zinnia can't get any action. When a random college-drop-out hippie type in a floppy hat trespasses into her garden, she is so desperate to get hitched and escape from dumb-ass dad that she quickly agrees to marry him, if only he can find some way to trick the King into allowing it.
I won't go into the unlikely ruses by which the King is eventually lured into a crate and locked up, but I will say that they demonstrated not the "importance of silliness" (i.e. the positive value of play and imagination) but rather the importance of not being a self-important wind-bag without the slightest vestige of common sense.
Perhaps they all lived happily ever after.