In the "Fellin Sister," Otto updates Aesop, as a timid laboratory assistant drills a hole in his baseboard to watch a pair of lascivious sisters become animals, and make animals of the jocks who join them. "The Birthday Present" is a sexual fable where the moral twists around a wife's affair. The husband forces his wife to give him gifts of penance on her birthday, and she responds by abolishing her birthday. "How I Got Rid of That Stump" is a tour-de-force of graphic description, in which a dreamy piano-tuner muses on a world of sumo wrestlers and trolls. This is the narrative music Otto has mastered, a balance of imperfections more beautiful than any celestial absolute.