Fables on Four Modern and Four Ancient Sciences.
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Haydu, George G.
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1970
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A strange collection of eight short prose pieces, written by a polymath and curiously divided. The two I could best identify with are the third and fourth. The third, on psychiatry, is The Frog Who Got Too Big for His Breeches. Nothing can help Freddie the Frog until the psychiatrist prescribes a swelled head, the perfect balance for his problem of being overbig for his breeches. The next story, on poetics, speaks of a leaf that wants to be free of its tree and fly like a bird. I find this book difficult because of its shifting tone: sophomoric, satiric, poetic. Fable here means didactic narrative, but the teaching process is flawed, I think.
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Branden Press
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1828 (Access ID)