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Week 35, lesson 1 A MODERN AESOP

The telling of a story in simple terms that has an inherently important message is a venerable art form. The parable may be found teaching a moral lesson in the Bible. Aesop is an incontrovertible master of the fable.

This story form is far from antiquated as shown by the whimsical approach to life taken by the modern Aesop, James Thurber.

His stories lampoon the strange behavior of his fellow men. Thurber seems unable to countenance the ideas that permeate our society regarding the rules by which we should live.

Least of all is he able to accept the sanctimonious notion that some people promulgate that good always wins out against evil.

Thurber’s stories often take an exactly opposite didactic point of view.