We have grown up reading books and tales with underlying morals. However, these morals and values weren’t explicitly mentioned. Rather, allegories were used that had deep meanings. Allegory is a ...

"Narcissus" by Caravaggio (c. 1598). Source: Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain What is an allegory? An allegory (Greek, "a speaking about something else") is a complete and cohesive narrative, for ...

Back when most people stayed home, travel writing was a highly imaginative genre. Ask Pausanias, Ibn Battuta or Marco Polo about the strange creatures and bizarre customs that they, and evidently ...

NEWTON, Massachusetts, 1980, and a boy of 12 sneaks into a cinema. Having already seen Alien and Halloween, the youngster considers himself pretty hardcore when it comes to horror. Ten minutes later, ...

But their interpretive method led some into heresy. There are people who take great pains to twist the sense of the divine scriptures," wrote the fourth-century biblical scholar, Theodore of ...

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I recently came across an obscure compact disc (CD) from the equally obscure progressive rock band Caravan. The CD was titled "Blind Dog at St. Dunstans." At the end of the seventh song, "Jack and ...

He it is who has bestowed upon thee from on high this divine writ, containing messages that are clear in and by themselves – and these are the essence of the divine writ – as well as others that are ...