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A fable is a succinct story, in prose or verse, that features animals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature which are anthropomorphized (given human qualities), and that illustrates a moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be expressed explicitly in a pithy maxim. A fable differs from a parable in that the latter excludes animals, plants, inanimate objects, and forces of nature as actors that assume speech and other powers of humankind. Usage has not always been so clearly distinguished. In the King James Version of the New Testament, "μύθος" ("mythos") was rendered by the translators as "fable" in First and Second Timothy, in Titus and in First Peter. From Wikipedia under the
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LA Observed Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:52:20 -0700 He was a bit of a fabulist and a spinner of weird theories, but he wasn't just a talker. He encountered LSD in 1964 (while he was rooming with me in Berkeley -- I was not the one who turned him on, I have to insist; that was the heiress of a famous ... Horse Race Inside r.com Sun, 13 Mar 2011 08:07:06 -0700 Earlier in the year, Hansen had been banned from Golden Gate Fields during an investigation into the bribery of other jockeys, and his reputation as a fabulist took on whale-like proportions when he arrived at Churchill Downs and began spinning stories ... From Google News Search: "fabulists" frontpsych.com Frontier Fabulist, frontpsych.com 2011-01-06 12:54:04 In a recent New York Observer article, Patti Smith is credited as suggesting New York City is no longer the place for young artists looking to make it. She says, New York has closed itself off to the young and struggling ... frontpsych.com Frontier Fabulist, frontpsych.com 2011-01-26 17:40:20 Hercules & Love Affair's impressive debut included Blind, a pulsing, emphatic dance track (featuring the lovely, melancholy vocal of Antony Hegarty of Antony & the Johnsons) that ushered in a throwback to long play disco. ... From Google Blog Search: "fabulists" |
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