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A story that smuggles the truth past your defenses while you're busy enjoying the plot.
means A short, simple story told to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson rather than to report facts.
from From Greek 'parabole' — a 'placing beside' or comparison, from 'para-' (alongside) plus 'ballein' (to throw). The same root gave us 'parabola,' the curve a thrown ball traces — so a parable and a lobbed stone share an ancestor: something cast alongside something else to make a point land.
- etymology
- Greek parabole, meaning a comparison thrown alongside
- technique
- hides the lesson so judgment arrives after sympathy
- famous user
- Jesus taught almost entirely through them
- not a fable
- no talking animals, just uncomfortably human choices