Zitat des Tages über Fabel / Fable:
I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
While the Bible's account of the flood is one of judgment, it is also one of mercy and salvation. Likewise, our future full-size evangelistic Noah's Ark will honor the Bible as God's word and not treat it as a pagan fable.
It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.
Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as marriage partners.
From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own.
Suspense films are often based on communication problems, and that affects all of the plot points. It almost gives it kind of a fable feeling.
Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
Whosoever counts these Lays as fable, may be assured that I am not of his mind.
There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.
For kind of sophisticated art I'm interested in, the larger structural rebuke has to be so subtle that it has to be distributed at an almost sub-atomic level. Otherwise, you fall into the kind of preachy, moralistic fable that I don't think makes for good literature.