Tag: allegory
Paintings to Remember: A Narrative Nonfiction by Rafiq Ebrahim
ED: Welcome to our great new writer, Rafiq Ebrahim! From the composer Modest Mussorgsky’s ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’ to the Alexander Sokurov movie, ‘Russian Ark,’ galleries have been well recognised as assortments of ‘ikons’ that can all point beyond themselves…
REVOLUTION! (By Richard Seltzer)
Once there was a kingdom where the farmers were unhappy, the tradesmen were unhappy, the soldiers were unhappy, and even the king himself was unhappy. The farmers blamed it on the tradesmen. The tradesmen blamed it on the soldiers. The…
Great Was the Fall (Parable on America With an Ancient Feel)
In the days of the old King, King Bush, the people did eat of the fat of the earth and drink of the fruit of the vine. But lo a new King, King Obama, ascended the throne and soon there…
Foolish Walter & his Loving Oak: A Parable of Ecocide and Homicide
Cold was the evening, Chill was the wind, Dull the foreboding The forest stumbling in! Old was the tree Rotten were the branches Foul-mossy was the trunk To Walter the assassin! Oh, useless, tree! The farmer muttered bitter No use…