Quote from Michael in The Untethered Sole
Adhir: I finished writing your speech about the wall. Question. Do you need an opening parable? It's hard to find one where the wall builder isn't, you know, starved to death by his own wall, or dies of loneliness by his own wall. Or, of course, is crushed to death by his own wall. Michael: Yeah. We don't want to blow the ending anyway. Adhir: Ah. Then you'll hate the one about the honeybee.