The Tale of the Crazy Dragon
Once upon a time, there was a land, but not an ordinary one—it was a Dragon-land. Everyone probably knows this land, but few suspect that a dragon lived there who was so crazy that he worried all the other dragons. And so it happened one fine day that the mighty king of Dragon-land, Drakulin IV, sighed: "This can't be true anymore, our dragon Vyhlávka is so nuts it's rattling the doors. We have to do something, otherwise people will stop taking us seriously and we'll be everyone's laughingstock." At that moment, a counselor named Podlouch the Crooked slunk over to the king and whispered quietly: "Your Majesty, I suggest we send him out into the world to gain experience. Let him learn to be a normal dragon."
The king immediately agreed, called for the nutty dragon, and ordered him: "Dragon, you are not exactly the brightest, so from my position as the king of the dragon kingdom, I am sending you out into the world to learn to be wiser." The dragon was so happy that he started flying around the cave, hooting like a maniac. The king just shook his head, and when the antics went on for quite a while, he bellowed: "You knucklehead, fly out into the world and try not to smash the whole thing to pieces!" The dragon flew out of the cave like a greased lightning bolt and headed into the world.
He flew like this for about two days when a lightbulb went off in his head, and he realized he didn't actually know what such a dragon does in the world. So he sat down on the first little meadow and started scratching his head. Out of nowhere, suddenly, a truly beautiful—but truly beautiful—ugly princess stood before the dragon. She looked at the dragon and sighed: "Geez, you are one ugly cow, and where did you actually come from?" The dragon looked at the princess with one eye, completely annoyed that someone was interrupting his train of thought, and hissed through his teeth: "Now wait a minute, you're no beauty either, and I'm not a cow, I'm a dragon."
The princess sat down in front of the dragon and asked: "What is a dragon?" The dragon replied: "That's me." Princess: "If you are you, then who is the dragon?" Dragon: "I am me, but also a dragon." Princess: "No one can be 'me' and 'a dragon' at the same time." Dragon: "If I were someone else, then I'd be you, but I'm a dragon." Princess: "At this point, I don't stop misunderstanding at all—you aren't me, but you are you, and who is the dragon?" Dragon: "Yikes, this is really intense. There's someone even more of a knucklehead here than me." The princess scratched her bearded chin, looked for a moment as if she might actually be thinking, and then blurted out: "Are you kidding me? You keep rambling about how you aren't me, but you are you, and if you are you, you're also a dragon, and now you're telling me there's another knucklehead here. So how is it? I'm starting to feel like it's going to get pretty crowded here soon."
Dragon: "Please, leave me alone, you're as thick as a post and I have enough troubles of my own." The princess huffed, did an about-face, and marched off somewhere into the forest. The dragon sat for a little while longer, thinking, and finally sighed: "Forget this, I've been in the world for just a moment and I'm already going crazy. If all creatures in this world are this dim-witted, then heaven help us." He spread his wings and headed back. On the way, he made a vow that he would no longer be such a knucklehead, just so no one would ever think of sending him back to that crazy world again."
The bell has rung, for crazy dragons, the story is done.