Category: parables

• March 8, 2011

  On erotic love and self-deception

  A Parable The imp sits on your chest, solicits favors, demands satisfaction, pleads ignorance. At times, you can’t breath; at times, you’re out of breath. The imp takes to calling you Self-Deception; he insists you call him Erotic Love.
• January 28, 2011

  The 3 figures of the philosopher

  On a field trip to the museum, you see a few philosophical specimens. Not as interesting, of course, as the curiosities bobbing in wait for you just around the corner: the brains curing in vats, the elephant men whose feet are mercilessly swollen, the gnarled dwarfs preserved in jars. Still, worth a quick peek before…
• January 26, 2011

  The Parable of the Good Samaritan

  Yesterday, I was in a hurry. I had timed things so that, assuming nothing out of the ordinary, I’d get to where I was headed a few minutes before the person I was expecting to meet would likely arrive. It was an appointment I was looking forward to (I like the person very much, and…