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Brewer's Quotations: A Phrase and Fable Dictionary
Other titles in the Brewer series, a name perpetuated more for commercial association with Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable than for relevance of content, are, in addition to Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 14th Edition, Brewer's Concise Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, Brewer's Politics, Brewer's Theatre , and the anachronistic Brewer's Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Phrase and Fable [BIBLIOGRAPHIA, XVIII, 4, 19], Brewer's Cinema, and Brewer's Twentieth-Century Music .
This version came from the fable of the monkey which used a cat's paw to draw hot chestnuts from a fire.
Those in favor say the film is really a fable about parental love, since Benigni's character's antics are really an effort to shield his son from the horrors of World War II.
How it came about the the myth could take the place of history, and feed both fiction and utopia, that fiction in the form of dogma of various kinds could take the place of science, that science could progressively dominate fiction, that history, in eliminating myth, could itself become a science, at the cost of a ruthless battle between the imaginary and the real--a battle whose outcome, even today, remains unclear--this story reads like a novel: and in any case, doesn't the word history itself, which designates a succession of facts through time, also encapsulate the word story: a tale, a fable, an imaginary account?